This is an old post, but I didn't see any answers in response, so here goes...

James Leonard Pope (b.1872; d.1919) was my 1st cousin 3x removed. Married Iris Zilonia Bullock (b.1877). James' parents were William A Pope and Mary B Cobb. His father, William A Pope, was the son of my ggg-grandfather, William H Pope. There is a whole section on him in The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama. I will warn, however, that some of the information in that book is incorrect, but it is still a great place to start from.