OBIT: J. Porter POPE, 1919, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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J. PORTER POPE

  James Porter Pope died at his home at the corner of Second and Church 
streets on Sunday morning at 5:30 of severe throat trouble extending over 
many years but lately complicated with a case of the grip.  Mr. Pope was 
conductor on the coal freight from Huntingdon to Harrisburg for twenty-eight 
years.  He was a member of the relief which during the first part of his 
retirement from active duty sustained him, and three years ago, he was 
retired with a pension.  J. Porter Pope was the youngest of twelve children 
of Edward and Esther (Miller) Pope and was born in Frankstown, Blair county 
on October 14, 1841, being aged at the time of his death, 77 years, three 
months and twelve days.  With his parents he moved to McVeytown and then to 
Huntingdon, where he resided until the end of his life.  He was united in 
marriage to Miss Mary Jane Miller on March 11, 1866, and they have spent all 
their married life in Huntingdon.  Mr. Pope was a member of the First 
Methodist Episcopal church and one of the oldest members of Juniata lodge No. 
117, I.O.O.F., having joined in 1868.  He is survived by his wife; one son, 
Samuel H. Pope, a linotypist on the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and a state 
officer of the I.O.O.F.; one daughter, Mrs. Violet, wife of contractor Frank 
R. Gutierez, of Huntingdon.  Mr. Pope had six brothers in the Federal army in 
the Civil war, and himself served in the emergency militia.  He was the last 
survivor of the family.  The funeral will be held on Tuesday afternoon, 
services at the house at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. George S. Woomer, with 
interment in Riverview cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, January 28, 1919, page 9