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POPE. 22 Mar 1962: Private services were held at Parker's Huneral Chapel in Columbia, Missour i, for Mrs. William H. Pope, 84, who died at 1 a.m. 5 March at the Boone County Nursing Hom e where she had been a patient since Jan 1960. The Rev. C.E. Lemmon conducted the service an d burial was at OAk Grove in St. Louis. Mrs, Pope, the former Hettie June Piggott was born i n November 1877 in Jersey County, the daughter of the late George and Hannah Snyder Piggott . She was the seventh of the couple's eight children, all of whome preceded her in death. S he was graduated from Upper Altoon high school on 31 May 1895 and taught school for several h ears in Jersey County before going to St. Louis to live. In St. Louis she was a bookkeepe r until her marriage to William Pope on 18 Oct 1904. Mr. Pope died in Nov., 1953. Mrs. Pop e is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Roland Ellis of Columbia, Missouri, and one granddaughter , Carole Ellis Wolff of Lansing, Michigan. Mrs Pope was a direct descendent of James Piggott , Illinois pioneer who operated the first ferry across the Mississippi river. Mr. Piggott wa s born in Connecticut in 1739. He joined the George Rogers Clark Expedition to Kaskaskia an d in 1780 became a resident of Illinois at Cahokia. There he served as Justice of the Peac e and established his ferry service in 1797. His son, Dr. Isaac Newton Piggott, was an itine rant Methodist preacher in Jersey County and later became a Postmaster in Jersey County. H e established the line from which Mrs. Pope descended.
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