Jane Dawson of Amherst County, Virginia. His daughter Matilda Pope married John Williams Walker, who became Alabama's first senator, and was the mother of LeRoy Pope Walker, Confederate secretary of war and brigadier general; Richard Wilde Walker, Confederate States senator; Percy Walker, United States representative; and several other children. Another daughter, Maria Pope, married Thomas George Percy, Sr., and was the ancestor of such notables as Senator LeRoy Percy of Mississippi, the poet William Alexander Percy, Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, and the author Walker Percy. Pope died in Huntsville on June 17, 1844, and is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery. References Secondary sources Owen, Thomas McAdory, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Vol. IV. Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1921. Reprinted with an introduction by Milo B. Howard, Jr. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company, 1978. Robey, Diane, Dorothy Scott Johnson, John Rison Jones, Jr., and Frances C. Roberts. Maple Hill Cemetery: Phase One. Huntsville: Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society, 1995. Alabama Historical Association. "The LeRoy Pope Mansion, 1814." Historical marker. 1997. Le Roy Pope Obituary, - -Southern Advocate, Huntsville, June 21, 1844. Alabama state court judges Alabama lawyers Farmers from Alabama 1765 births 1844 deaths Lawyers from Huntsville, Alabama American planters 19th-century American lawyers