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The life of William Ruggles Pope
Biography
William Ruggles Pope was born on August 1, 1803 in the community later incorporated as Enfield, Massachusetts, in the Swift River valley later cleared for the Quabbin Reservoir. His parents were Freeman Pope and Hannah Thayer. He was fourteen when Hannah died in 1817.
His first wife, Julia A. Rowe, died in 1834. Their daughters included Mary Esther and Hannah Thayer. William subsequently married Mary B. Beers, with whom he had Harriet Zeviah and Sarah Melenett. These two marriages joined children born across nearly two decades in the Pope family.
William and Mary both died in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1883: Mary on February 9 and William on March 6. Their memorials place them in Providence’s North Burial Ground.
Their daughter’s name also appears as Harriet Zerviah Pope Carpenter. The family history identifies William’s father as Captain Freeman Pope.
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Children with Mary B. Beers Pope
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Birth in later Enfield community — Community later incorporated as Enfield (1816).
Community later incorporated as Enfield (1816)
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Burial — North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island.
North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island
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Probable later household — Providence, Rhode Island.
Providence, Rhode Island
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Family records
- Canonical PROD, revision 116
- Location evidence: person 135
- Retained family research and archival source findings