13 Facts About LeRoy Pope

LeRoy Pope was an American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama.

LeRoy Pope was educated in his home state, and moved with his parents to Amherst County, Virginia.

LeRoy Pope is said to have served in the American Revolution, and was present at the siege and battle of Yorktown, but no official documentation of this service exists.

In 1790, Pope and a host of friends and relatives removed to the town of Petersburg, in Elbert County, Georgia, where he was a tobacco planter.

LeRoy Pope acquired a large tract of land which included the highly sought-after Big Spring, where pioneer John Hunt had settled in 1805.

LeRoy Pope was successful in petitioning the territorial legislature to select his land as the site of Madison County's seat of government.

LeRoy Pope named the new town Twickenham after the home in England of his distant relative Alexander Pope.

LeRoy Pope's mansion, called Poplar Grove, was erected in 1814, in time to entertain General Andrew Jackson on his return home from the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

LeRoy Pope was a wealthy and successful planter, and was active in the early government and civic leadership of Huntsville and Madison County.

LeRoy Pope presided as chief justice of the first county court, and was among the founders of the first Episcopal church in Huntsville, organized in 1830.

LeRoy Pope was named by the legislature as a commissioner for the Planters' and Merchants' Bank of Huntsville, Alabama's first banking corporation, and for the Indian River Navigation Company.

LeRoy Pope was married to Judith Sale, daughter of Cornelius Sale and Jane Dawson of Amherst County, Virginia.

LeRoy Pope died in Huntsville on June 17,1844, and is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery.