From a scrapbook of newspaper clippings submitted by Bob Johnson

Penciled date: July 1940

Funeral services were held for Willard Aaron POPE, son of Aaron and Mary Ann Wetzell POPE. He was born Dec. 25, 1888 on the old POPE homestead in Hume township. He farmed most of his adult life. He leaves one sister, Mrs. Sadie DAVIS; one brother, John T. POPE and a half-brother, Irving STEWART