For all my kin trying to find the parents of the Nancy Treadaway married to William H. Pope, as mentioned in "The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama"...
First, I was skeptical about Nancy's last name being Treadaway for a long time because I couldn't find record of it, until recently. Her maiden surname appears in the Alabama Deaths and Burials Index for her son, Thomas Curby Pope (incorrectly spelled in the index as Thomas Cirb Pope).
Nancy's parents were Daniel Treadaway and Mahulda Johnson. My first clue was a court record that reads...
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Anson County - July Term 1851 - JOHN TYSON JR., Adm'r of RICHARD TREADAWAY VS. DANIEL TREADAWAY, RANDAL TREADAWAY, WILLIAM POPE and wife, NANCY - Petition for Sale of Land to Pay Debts - In this case, it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendants, DANIEL TREADWAY, RANDAL TREADAWAY, WILLIAM POPE, and wife, NANCY, reside beyond the limits of this State: It is therefore ordered by the Court that publication be made for six successive weeks in the North Carolina Argus notifying said defendants, non residents, to be and appear at the next Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to be held for the County of Anson at the Court House in Wadesborough on the second Monday in October next. Then and there, to plead, answer or demur to this petition filed. Otherwide, judgment will be taken pro confesso and heard ex parte as to them. Witness NORFLEET D. BOGGAN, Clerk of the said Court at office, the second Monday in July A. D. 1851. N. D. BOGGAN, C.C.C. Additional Comments: DANIEL TREADWAY, RANDAL TREADAWAY, WILLIAM POPE, NANCY POPE, NORFLEET D. BOGGAN [Source: N. C. Argus - Sept. 13, 1851; Written: July 1851; Recorded: September 13, 1851]
You will find this online at
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/anson/court/tyson251wl.txtIt took me a while to piece it all together, then I found her listed as a family member in the fifth family listed on this page...
http://members.tripod.com/~Randy_T/RichTread3.htmlIn 1850, Daniel and Mahulda migrated from Anson, NC to Paulding, GA. That is why they were not present at the court procedings in 1851 (above). Mahulda migrated in 1860 from Paulding, NC to Walker, AL.
If the information in "The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama" is correct then Nancy migrated to Russell, Alabama by 1855, which is where JOEL Francis Pope was supposedly born (according to the book). NOTE: His name was recorded as "JOEL" - not "James" - in records and documents for the 86 years of his life.
Anyhow, through AncestryDNA I have a DNA match with a 4th cousin where Daniel and Mahulda Treadaway are our common ancestors. As far as I can tell, this pretty much confirms my findings. I hope this helps others to move forward with their research into our past.
- Roy Pope Jr