[1] She grew up in Williamson County, "less than one mile" from the John Pope House in Burwood, Tennessee, built by her paternal great-grandfather.
[1] Her father, William Campbell Pope, served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.
[5] Pope supported the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws.
[1] She was a proponent of the "repatriation" of African-American United States citizens to Africa, and she was nostalgic about the American Colonization Society.
[1] Pope resided in the West End neighborhood of Nashville, next to Centennial Park and Vanderbilt University.