Mary Catherine Greenup

Mary Catherine Pope was related to George Washington.

She married Christopher Greenup on July 9, 1787. She became first lady of the state of Kentucky.

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Greenup, Mary Catherine Pope (1752?-1807). Daughter of Nathaniel Pope of Virginia, she was the wife of Christopher Greenup, congressman from Kentucky 1792-1798. Dolley would have met Mary Greenup in Philadelphia. Christopher Greenup was governor of Kentucky (1804-1808). He supported James for president in 1808. The couple had one son, Christopher Greenup.

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Mary Catherine Pope (d. date unknown)

Mary Catherine Pope8540, 8540 died date unknown. She married Christopher Greenup on July 09, 17878540, son of John W. Greenup and Elizabeth Witten.

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Marriage: July 09, 17878540

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Gov. Christopher Greenup, who served from 1804-1808, held the first inaugural ball for his wife, Mary Catherine Pope Greenup. She died in 1807, and according to legend, her ghost walks the halls at night carrying a candle, Collins said.

Mary Catherine Pope, fourth daughter of Nathaniel, IV (1729-1806) and Lucy Anne Smith Fox Pope (1732-89), was born in 1765, in Louisa County, Va. She married in 1787, in Richmond, Va., Governor Christopher Greenup (1750-1818), of Loudoun County, Va. During the Revolution, he was a first lieutenant in the Continental Line, 1777-78, and later a colonel in the Virginia militia. He was an attorney, judge, a first Member of Congress from Kentucky, 1792-97, third governor of Kentucky, 1804-08, and in whose honor Greenup County, Ky. was named. She was the first First Lady to be honored with a ball prior to the governor's inauguration. The ball took place on August 28, 1804, at Wiesinger's in Frankfort. She died while her husband was governor. The Greenup mansion was one of the show places in Danville, Ky. Their seven children were Nancy Peyton (1793-1870), Wilson Pope (c1794-1821), Susan Pope (c1793-post1830), Charlotte V.C. (c1801-), Lucetta Pope (d.unm.), Christopher, Jr. (c1800-) who was a newspaper editor in Tallahassee, and Eliza Greenup.

Susan Pope Greenup (c1793-post1830) married in 1811, Craven P. Luckett who represented Jefferson County, Ky. in the legislature, 1821-22.  They lived in Louisville, Ky.  Their five children were Catherine (d.yng.); Peter Ogden (d.yng.); Anne Eliza; Mary Anne who married (1) Dupres, and (2) Capt. Coulton; and Christopher G. Luckett.  

Mary Catherine Pope died October 22, 1807, and was probably buried in Belleview Cemetery, Frankfort. Her husband, Governor Greenup, died April 27, 1818, and is buried in Frankfort Cemetery.
See Franklin County, Ky. Will Book B, 320-324; Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, v.1, (Frankfort, Ky., May 1903); Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky's Governors (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 12 (states Gov. Greenup's parents are unknown); Elise Greenup Jourdan, The Greenup Family (Heritage Books, 2003)(believes his parents were John (1707-ante1769) and Ann Greenup, of Frederick County, Md.); Russell Hatter and Nicky Hughes, Frankfort Cemetery, The Westminster Abbey of Kentucky (Frankfort Heritage Press, 2007), 178-179 (picture of his monument and perhaps his house); Margaret Gwin Buchanan, The DuVals of Kentucky from Virginia 1794-1935 (Lynchburg, Va., 1938), 13 (photo of the Greenup mansion); James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 134.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 5 2023, 16:23:05 UTC