Sampler
Maker's Name
Pope, Bettie
Location
Cedar Grove, Bullitt County, Kentucky
Date Made
1844
Maker's Age
15 years old, born in 1829
Dimensions
16 ½ x 9 ½ inches
Medium
Silk on linen with Algerian eye, cross and herringbone stitches; thread count: 44/inch horizontal, 25/inch vertical
Provenance
Made by Elizabeth Ellen Pope in 1844. The sampler was donated to The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky on June 27, 2000. The donor's genealogy can be traced to a common ancestor, (Worden Pope 1700 - 1749) as follows. The donor’s great, great, great, great, great, grandfather and Elizabeth Ellen Pope’s great grandfather was Worden Pope (1705-1749). The donor’s great, great, great, great grandfather, William Pope (1745-1825) was a brother to Elizabeth Ellen Pope’s great grandfather Benjamin Pope (1740-1816) with William and Benjamin being sons of Worden Pope. William Pope and Benjamin Pope had two other full siblings, Jane Pope (1741-1821) and John Pope (1748-?) and two half siblings (after Worden died in 1749 and their mother Hester Netherton Pope (1725-1802) remarried to Lynaugh Helm (1724-1789) in 1752. These two half siblings were Margaret Helm (1752–1814) and Helen Celia Helm (1753–1778). When the sampler passed from Elizabeth Ellen Pope’s descendants to her great uncle’s descendants and hence to the donor, a California resident, is uncertain.
Description
The sampler has seven lines of alphabets and numbers separated by rows of stitchery.
It is signed:
Bettie Pope Worked at Cedar
Grove. June. th4, 1844
The lower quarter of the ground is empty suggested that Bettie never finished her work or perhaps simply left it blank.
Elizabeth Ellen Pope was born in 1829 in Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky. Her father, George Foote Pope (1782-1840) was forty-seven years old and her mother, Martha Lancaster Dozier (1803-1860), was twenty-six. She had three brothers including Charles Wickliffe, (1834–1898), John Dozier (1823–1902), and Worden (1825–1873), and one sister, Sarah Ann, 1831-unk, all born in Bullitt County, Kentucky.
Elizabeth Ellen Pope died on July 31, 1881, in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of fifty-two, and was buried in Sect. O, Lot 322-NE½, Gr. 4, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky (strikingly close the the AKS family plot).
The Pope family has a long and extensive history in Bullitt County and Jefferson County, Kentucky. It is well beyond the scope of this website but is well documented on genealogy websites.
It is signed:
Bettie Pope Worked at Cedar
Grove. June. th4, 1844
The lower quarter of the ground is empty suggested that Bettie never finished her work or perhaps simply left it blank.
Elizabeth Ellen Pope was born in 1829 in Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky. Her father, George Foote Pope (1782-1840) was forty-seven years old and her mother, Martha Lancaster Dozier (1803-1860), was twenty-six. She had three brothers including Charles Wickliffe, (1834–1898), John Dozier (1823–1902), and Worden (1825–1873), and one sister, Sarah Ann, 1831-unk, all born in Bullitt County, Kentucky.
Elizabeth Ellen Pope died on July 31, 1881, in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of fifty-two, and was buried in Sect. O, Lot 322-NE½, Gr. 4, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky (strikingly close the the AKS family plot).
The Pope family has a long and extensive history in Bullitt County and Jefferson County, Kentucky. It is well beyond the scope of this website but is well documented on genealogy websites.
Owner/History of Owner/Credit Line
The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
AKS Catalog Number
2020-059
Sources
The Filson Historical Society documents
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch.org
Findagrave.com
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch.org
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