Bray – Pope Marriage (27 April 1859)

MARRIAGES. Bray and Pope – April 27, George Frederick Campbell Bray, Esq., Captain 96th Regiment, second son of Colonel Bray, C.B., late of the 39th Regiment, to Charlotte Frances, only surviving daughter of the late Edward Pope, D.D., Archdeacon of Read More …

2009 Annual Reunion for the Frostburg, Maryland Keatings

The annual reunion of the “Frostburg Maryland Keatings” will be held on Saturday, 27 June 2009, in Glenelg, Maryland. Although most of the attendees are the families of John and Sara (Pope) Keating, descendants of John and Julia (Hyland) Keating, Read More …

Keating-Pope Wedding (7 October 1933)

This image is from the wedding of my grandparents, John William Keating and Sara Elizabeth Pope. It comes from a scanned negative and is a group shot from the wedding and reception that I’d never seen before scanning it in. Read More …

Mary (Merrill) Durst (26 February 1915 – 12 January 2009)

Mary Merrill Durst [Frostburg] FROSTBURG – Mary Merrill Durst, 93, formerly of 73 Durst Lane, Frostburg, died Monday, Jan. 12, 2009 at the WMHS Frostburg Nursing and Rehab Center. Born Feb. 26, 1915 in Avilton, she was the daughter of Read More …

Father Edward Louis “Benedict” Pope (17 September 1929 – 9 December 2008)

Father Benedict Pope [Pittsburgh] PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Father Benedict Pope, OFM Cap., 79, died on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 at Vincentian Home, Pittsburgh. Father Ben was born in Cumberland, Md. on Sept. 17, 1929 to Claude and Regina (Loraditch) Pope. Read More …

Regina Pope (c. 1903 – 12 September 1967)

Mrs. Claude Pope Salisbury, Pa.–Mrs. Regina Pope, 64, died Tuesday at Meyersdale Community Hospital. Born in Pocahontas, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Alice (McKenzie) Loraditch. She was a member of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Avilton, and Read More …

Sara Elizabeth (Pope) Keating (30 April 1913 – 12 September 1974)

Mrs. John W. Keating Frostburg – Mrs. Elizabeth Keating, widow of the late John W. Keating, 3500 Plateau Avenue, Baltimore, died Thursday at her home following an illness of five months. Daughter of the late George and Mary (Carney) Pope, Read More …

Doris Elizabeth (Weimer) Pope (1934 – 2007)

Doris E. Pope [Salisbury] SALISBURY, Pa. – Doris Elizabeth Pope, 73, of Salisbury, died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007 at her residence. Born Jan. 9, 1934, in Frostburg, Md., she was the daughter of the late Stanley Edward and Helen (Hoye) Read More …

Carol Lee (Pope) Spriggs (1944 – 2008)

Carol L. Spriggs [Cumberland] CUMBERLAND – Carol Lee Spriggs, 63, of Cumberland, died on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008, at the WMHS-Memorial Campus. Born Nov. 22, 1944, in Cumberland, she was the daughter of the late Charles Pope and Gretchen (Gordon) Read More …

Willis H. “Bill” Pope (? – 2007)

POPE, Willis (Bill) H. On May 16 2007, WILLIS (Bill) H.; beloved husband of 50 years to Dorothy L. (nee Wurtzer); loving father of Rickey Pope and his wife Suenette, Rebecca Fierschnaller and her husband Allan, Donna Caraffa and her Read More …