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Charles Wesley Pope

By E. Robertson (need new email address please)
Charles Wesley Pope, grandson of William Wesley Pope and Hetha Longshore Brannon, son of John William Pope and

 Betty Newman Pope. He was born in Haralson Co., Ga. February 16, 1890 and died October 13, 1973. Married

November 5, 1911 Mattie May Willoughby, from Newell, Alabama, daughter of Homer and Molly Willoughby. They had

five children: Maurice (struck by lightning in his 20's), Dr. Hughlan Pope, Stanley, Virginia and Mary Elizabeth.
He was a Baptist minister and it is believed he was 'called' to preach at Steadman Baptist Church. He was pastor there

 in 1916 and again in 1920 and 1921. He obtain his degree from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a

instructor at Mercer University for the year 1924-1925. His M. A. thesis was "The Psychological Characteristics of the

Great Wakening'. Mercer University, 1925. He was the pastor at several churches and was Executive Secretary of

Tennessee Baptist Convention in the 1950's. He and his wife Mattie May Willoughby retired in Tallapoosa during the

1960's or early 1970's. Charles Wesley Pope and Mattie May are buried at Steadman Baptist Church in

Haralson Co., GA.  

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