Brief Life History of Charlie Bettis
When Charlie Bettis Pope was born on 12 June 1881, in Marengo, Alabama, United States, his father, Silas Morgan Pope, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Catherine Virginia "Jennie" Sanders, was 32. He died on 8 July 1904, at the age of 23, and was buried in Hoboken, Marengo, Alabama, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Charlie B Pope in household of Silas M Pope, "United States Census, 1900"
- Charlie Bettis Pope, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1842–1930 Male
1849–1924 Female
Siblings (10)
1867–1956 Female
1870–1940 Female
1872–1950 Male
1874–1928 Male
1876–1900 Male
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 1
1886
Age 5
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 9
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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