Sophia Pope (Muse) Runnels (abt. 1733 - abt. 1820)

Born about 1733 in Prince William, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Dudley Runnels — married 1748 in Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died about 1820 at about age 87 in Clarke, Georgia, United States

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Famous Kin

Ancestry of Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President, 8th Generation — 5th Great-grandmother of Jimmy Carter, Ahnentafel No: 145

Father: James Muse, Mother: Sophia Pope Spouse Name: William Seale, Child: William Seal Muse

Notes:

Sophia Pope had an illicit affair with William Seale Muse that resulted in a son named William Seal Muse.

Sources for Sophia Pope Muse

1 Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 66.

My Research Notes

1a Humphrey Pope 1648 married to Elizabeth Hawkins 1635

1b Humphrey Pope 1671 married to Amey Veale 1682

Note - Still married to Amey, he married a woman named Mary Morrison 1679

1c Sophia Pope 1713 married to James Muse 1710

Note - Her (Sophia's) husband, James, got into financial trouble about 1750's. To escape his creditors, James and his wife moved to North Carolina. Charles and Lydia went with them.

1d Lydia Muse 1730 married to 2c Charles Bristow Seale 1729

Note - Divorced?

1e Sophia Pope Muse 1738 married to Dudley Runnels illicit affair with 2d William Seale 1722

Note - William is her sister's husband, Charles' brother.

Note - Resulted in a son named 2e William Seal Muse

1f William Seale Muse 1751 married Judith (surname unknown)

2a Anthony Seale 1659 married to Dorothy Hughes

2b Anthony Seale 1695 married to Anne Bristow

Note - married on Christmas Day

2c Charles Bristow Seale 1729 married to 1d Lydia Muse 1730

2d William Seale 1722 illicit affair with 1e Sophia Pope Muse 1738

Note - Resulted in a son named

2e William Seale Muse 1751 married Judith (surname unknown)

Note - Later on in life, dropped the Muse, adopted Seales as his surname

2f Spencer Seales marred Elizabeth Burnley

2g William Archibald Seals married Eliza Harris

2h Mary Ann Diligent Seals married 3a Littleberry Walker Carter

Note - Littleberry Carter was murdered at a carnival by his partner D. P. McCann over a dispute about receipts from a machine known as a Flying Jenny, a sort of small merry-go-round. His distraught wife died on the day of his burial. Proclamation from the governor mentioning a reward for the capture of Littleberry's murderer, D. P. McCann.

3b William Archibald "Billy" Carter married Nina Pratt

3c (James) Earl Carter married (Bessie) Lillian Gordy

3d James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. married (Eleanor) Rosalynn Smith