The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-11-27
From the Hillsboro Gazette.
Obituary of Gen. John w. Pope.

Departed this life the morning Of the 18th inst at
his residence in this county after protraced and
attack Of typhoid fever, Cen JoHN w PoPE in the
fist year OF his age-eaving an extensive circle Of
relatives and friends to deplore their His funeral
attended the following day. by large
Of his neghbors and feow.citizens to the cemetery Of
the "Frionds' Meeting House, near Samantha in this
county.
The active and energetic life of the :
deceased was identified with Highland :
county, from its earliest organization,
and with the now attractive and beauti- ,
ful fields Of his late homestead, "Fruit
Hill, j" for more than half century. It !
was always the scene of generous hos
pitality and good cheer, from the earli- ,
est period of its history as the "home Of
the pioneer and hunter, in the days o f
his.father, down to the period of his own
departure to that "bourne from which
no traveller returns"
Gen. POPE was, at an early period,
1916, engaged in the mercantile bust
ness in Hillsborough; but retired soon
after to the country, and was ever after.
ward farmer-devoted to the progress
of agricultural pursuits and the pleas
ures off rural and domestic life. His
skill, industry, and enterprise was al
ways conspicuous in the rapid march of
our country in this department, and he
was the late President of the Highland
county Agricultural Society.
He was ever kind and considerate of
the poor and unfortunate in his neigh
borhood, and many were the recipients
of his bounty and liborality. He was
emphatically the poor mans friend.
But it is more. especially as a friend and
neighbor, and father ofa devoted fami.
ly circle, that we would commemorate
the worth and unobtrusive virtues Of
the departed
That fond tenure Of heart and no me
content, and domestic happiness alas !
is now severed and the hospitable hearth
and generous welcome, will long
be cherished by many who call up the
feeting memory of the past, when the
u proprietor Of that mansion was an ac
tive and public spirited citizen, and a
warm hearted and generous friend.
His father, the late Judge NATHAN
TEL PoPE, was an early and conspicuous
pioneer of the North Western Territory
Before Ohio was In organized Territory,
and afterwards, he, with few of his
neighbors in Grayson county, Virginia,
! (where the subject of this memoir was
born) removed to Ohio, and settled at
: "Fruit Hill" in the year 1903 or 1904
The family were thus familiar with the
dangers, sufferings, and hardships of a
. frontier life, which few of the citizens
. of Ohio, at this period, can fully appre-
20 ciate. Judge Pope was at once actively
and extensively employed as Agent and
% Land Locator in this Virginia Military
. District" " and thus inviting around him
u an industriou US and thrifty emigration
from his native State and the Carolinas
: These lands were military grants from
B. the State of Virginia to the officers and
IL soldiers of the Virginia line or Cont
:, mental establishment, and among the
4 proprietors were Lee, Fitzhugh, Baytop,
. Eggleston, Mason, Watts, Graham
: Worsham, and others who, in those ear
ly days, were visitors to Ohio, and the
house of Nathaniel Pope their frequent
hospitablo home. Thus was our friend
when quite youth, introduced to men
It Of wealth, refinement, and education
" with whom he transacted busiue IS for
- his father, and made frequent visits to
10 Richmond, Leesburg, Lynchburg, and
n other portions Of Vir 5inia, for this pur
if pose. He had thus a favorable oppor.
y tunity and excellent school for cultiva
d ting that pleasing address, and accom-
e, plishment of manner, for which he was
m distinguished, and so rarely enjoyed a
ID this day.
re Gen. PoPE was too young to take al
active part in the war Of 1912; but ye
old enough to be imbued with the spiri
of the times, and the military fervo
of that period placed him, in regula
graduation, in the position of Brigade
General of tho militia of Highland
county. Many of the citizens of Obi,
~ can remember the era when battalion
and general musters we're the sigma
vents of the year, and some of them still
retain the distinctive title of their rank
But these scenes in the busy drama o
Western life, have passed rapidly away
and but few remain to recall the better
and PALMER days of the republic, undC
the auspices Of a we'll defined and justl.
appreciated civil liberty, when each cit
izen lived securely and at peace wit
his neighbors, and none to molest 0
make him afraid.
Gen. POPE was identified with al
these rapid and wonderful transition
J. from the secluded and wild life of th