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Amanda Pope Grave

Carroll County, Virginia

Pipers Gap District

Location: Cranberry Community

Directions: Exit Rt. 722 (Cranberry Road) onto Rt. 791 (Blackberry Lane), turn onto Hamilton’s Drive. The grave is located behind an outbuilding in a wooded area.

GPS Coordinates: N 36.67922 W 080.87580

Surveyed by: Buford C. Wilson. Updated 30 Apr 2006; buford-wilson@outlook.com

Comments: This grave is located on the old Hamilton Rowan Pope home place. The grave is marked with a field stone, Amanda Pope was the third wife of Hamilton Rowan Pope. She did not want to be buried in the cemetery with Hamilton and his other two wives.

Amanda Pope Grave, Carroll County, Virginia
Name Birth Death Comments
POPE, Amanda Catherine 08 Aug 1837 20 Mar 1916 d/o Allen Melton & Martha Ann “Patsy” Bedsaul; 3rd w/o Hamilton Rowan Pope