Daughter of Cyrus Waterman Pope and Nancy Jane Brown. She married 1/h Fredrick Billings and had daughter Nelle Belle Billings. Tilla V. Pope, Billings married 2nd time to Henry Truman Babcock 4 Mar. 1866 Janesville, Rock Co., WI. by her father-in-law Elial Babcock Justice of Peace. Marriage is under Truman H. Babcock at County Courthouse in Janesville. She always went by name "Tilla"
but a census had her as Matilda.
She had nine known children. Many died at birth. My mother Vivian Viola Foster Teague told me her grandmother had 5 sets of twins and only one set lived to maturity and that was her mother Elfa Rose Babcock and her twin sister Alta Rose Babcock.
In later life Tilla was wheel chair bound living at the Old Soldiers Home with husband Henry T. Babcock. She died of Diabetes Mellitus.
I believe that Frederick Billings and Henry T. Babcock knew each other during the Civil War. Both in 3rd Wisconsin Cav.
Frederick Billings in Co. A and Henry T. Babcock in Co. C.
Also, they probably knew each other in Janesville, WI.
Frederick Billings died in mental hospital (severe depression) in LaCrosse, WI.
He and Tilla must have divorced since they both remarried.

Picture of car
My mother (little girl sitting running board of car) Vivian V. Foster Teague, with her grandfather Henry Truman Babcock, and her mother Elfa Rose Babcock, Foster, Monks. Vivian's Uncle William "Dee" Deforest Babcock driving. Man to left (facing away) was her Uncle Charles Kinska husband of Alta Rose Babcock twin sister of her mother Elfa Rose Babcock, Foster, Monks.
Henry Truman Babcock wearing Civil War Jacket of which he was
very proud to wear.

Henry Truman Babcock and Tilla Viola Pope, Billings, Babcock were my great grandparents.

Link to Frederick Billings Civil War Veteran in LaCrosse, WI., as Tilla Viola Pope's first husband evidence leads me to this man. Frederick Billings was in Co. A where Henry Truman Babcock was in Co C. He only served 7 months in service because leaving with regiment from Janesville, WI., on way to Chicago, Il., there was a bad train wreck near Fort Douglas and Frederick Billings name mention as receiving contusions. (More serious than that had hip crushed in train wreck from Civil War papers. Then discharged. Rested a year or two and re-enlists in Co. K., 3rd WI. Cav. dwebb) Source Janesville newspaper in 1862. Later was in mental institution in West Salem, Hamilton Twp., in LaCrosse 1900 died in institution in 1910. 2nd wife Hattie A. Maxwell Billings his Guardian.

Federal Census's
Federal Census
1850 Janesville (East side of Rock River) Rock Co., WI
Cyrus W. Pope 33 Carpenter b. Conn
Jane Pope 29 b. Ohio
Olive Pope 7 b. WI
Matilda Pope 6 b. WI
Virgil Pope 3 b. WI
Freelove Pope 1 b. WI

Cyrus W. Pope's brother's Virgil Pope and Anson Waterman
Pope and families living on both sides of him in
Janesville, Rock Co., WI.

1860 Centerville, Linn Co., Kansas, P.O.
Oakwood
Cyrus W. Pope 50 Carpenter b. Conn
Freelove Pope 40 (should be Nancy Jane) b. Ohio
Laura Pope 17 (should be Matilda-Tilla Viola)b. WI
Virgil Pope 15 b. WI
Freelove Pope 12 (mental challenged dau.) b. WI
Ezra Pope 10 b. WI
M. Pope 3 b. WI
Infant Pope 3/12 female b. Kansas
Ford Ellis 27 Blacksmith b. on ocean
Oldest daughter Olive Pope Blodgett did not follow her
parents to Kansas since they had just married in 1859.

1870 Federal Census
Denver, Newaygo Co., MI.
pg. 66 31 Aug. 1870
Babcock, Truman 30 M. W. Farm Laborer ---$100 NY
Babcock, Tilla 26 F. W. Keeping House WI
Babcock, Nella (step-dau) 7 F. W. WI
Babcock, Minnie B. 2 F. W. MI
Babcock, Cyrus 6/12 M. W. MI