Jesse Pope (1831-1905) was listed in Humphries' definitive book on the Popes in Georgia as son of David Pope whose father John drew land in the 1821 GA Land Lottery in what is now Fulton Co. and became one of the founding families of Atlanta. The line can be traced back to Nathaniel Pope of Maryland whose daughter Anne married Col. John Washington and was the great grandmother of our own George Washington. Jesse Pope was a volunteer in the Georgia Militia of the 469th District of Fulton Co., in 1863. At that time, he was working on his brother John’s ferry at the Chattahoochee River. Some evidence indicates that Jesse operated the Fulton Co. side and John the Cobb Co. side. Which side he met his 2nd wife Mary Ann Wallace, we don’t know, but they moved to Cherokee Co., AL about 1872, close to the Coosa River. The 1886 Original Land Entry land in his name is now under the waters  of Lake Weiss. He took a hankering to move west in 1895. This must have been about the time son Dell took to preaching. The story goes that the law was looking for him and he hid in a barn and emerged in a dusty black suit, with top hat and Bible in hand. In June 1896, Lula died of consumption and Delmass died of typhoid fever a week later in a swamp in Austell, Georgia, leaving two orphan boys. The irony, Clayton, that Old Weaver would become a policeman in Centre, AL. He would later go on to supervise the Water Plant there. Of course, we still love the water, "but God pittie the people."