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EDMUND PENDLETON POPE, who was generally known as Pendleton Pope, was the third son. He was tall and slender, with a strong and most pleasing face, and graceful person; graduated with honor in the regular course at Transylvania University; was, like his brother Patrick, gifted with rare conversational power, and inherited the constitutional intrepidity of his father. He was for fifteen years clerk of the Circuit Court, and afterwards practiced law with great success to the day of his death, which occurred in his forty-seventh year. More than thirty years ago the writer heard his argument in defense of Johnson, who killed Lawrence; and so great was the impression then made, that the more eloquent parts of his speech remain in the memory of the writer to this day. He married Nancy, the daughter of Colonel James Johnson, of Scott County, Ky., and has three sons — Judge Alfred Thruston Pope, Captain James Worden Pope and Hamilton Pope, Jr., who survive him.