Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pope, Olie S., 1951 

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OLIE SIMON POPE

   After a lingering illness of nearly 18 months at the McGuire Veterans 
Hospital, Olie Simon Pope, son of the late Simon T. and Bettie Esther Pope, 
died on Thursday afternoon June 28 and was laid to test with full military 
honors Saturday afternoon in the Courtland Cemetery.

   He was born at the old Pope homestead near Capron on March 31, 1889.  At an 
early age he united with Whitehead’s Methodist Church, where his membership 
remained until he and his brothers moved to Courtland to live in the early 
part of 1933.  After Whitehead’s Church, where he was a loyal and consistent 
member of the church and Sunday school until illness necessitated his removal 
to the hospital, from which he never returned, with the exception of a few 
weeks last summer.

   "Olie Simon" as he was affectionally known by his many friends, was a 
veteran on World War I, upholding somewhat a family tradition, for his father 
fought in the Confederate army in the War Between the States from 1861-’65.

   He belonged to the Manry Hunt Club, and many were the hunts he had with 
them and alone.  Perhaps he was never a Daniel Boone nor an Isaac Walton, but 
no one can deny he always got his full measure of sport out of his hunting and 
fishing expeditions.  Though at times he never bagged the most game or caught 
the most fish, he nevertheless had as many thrills as the best of them.  He 
never tired of relating every little experience in the minutest detail - all 
of them important or amusing to him - as he fished the Nottaway and hunted its 
adjacent lowlands.  It is a fitting coincidence, the writer feels that he lies 
in death so very near the spot so dear to him in life.

   He is survived by three brothers, G. Franklin Pope of Newsoms, L. Hudson 
Pope of Rawlings and Guy L. Pope, Sr., of Franklin; and one nephew, Guy Lloyd 
Pope, Jr. of Franklin.

   Conducting the services were the pastor of the deceased and the pastors of 
the Newsoms Methodist Church and Union Christian Church.  Two hymns were 
beautifully rendered by Mrs. Mary Gilbert and John Rollison, "Beautiful Garden 
of Prayer" and "Sunrise Tomorrow."

   Pallbearers were: Active - W.T. Joyner, Edward Manry, W.C. Nurney, Jasper 
Joyner, and J.L. Bryant. Honorary Friends of the deceased.

   As the body of the "Morale Builder" (a name often used by his fellow 
patients, nurses and doctors at McGuire Hospital in referring to him) was 
lowered into the grave, a squad from Battery B. fired the customary number of 
volleys over his body, and then followed "Taps."  Thus his last summons was 
answered, and the last earthly reveille for him has been sounded.


Olie Simon POPE, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. 31 Mar 1889, near Capron, d. 28 Jun 1951, Richmond, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section II, Plot 10*), Courtland, 30 Jun 1951, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown** 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

**We originally cited this obit as having appeared in 
   "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 6, 1951, p. 8; 
   however, Bruce does not have this in her TN scans. 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," May 12, 1922, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p100s1ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Brad Whitehead, and 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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