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From: Barbara <>
Subject: Re: VAMONTGO-D Digest V98 #20
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 20:53:38 -0500


Thanks for the info, Phyllis, I do find it interesting. Very :)

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>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:41:15 -0500
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>Subject: Success Story
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>Persistence does pay off. I have recently found relatives in Va and have
>obtained the names of the parents of Jacob Bishop.
>
>Abraham ( Abel ) Bishop b. 30 May 1801 in Montogomery Co, Va. Married 11
>Aug 1821 to Mary Jane (Polly) Hornbarger b. 02 Jan 1807.
>
>Jacob b. 25 Nov 1852
>
>Asa b. 25 Dec 1846.
>
>Asa fought in the civil war, enlisted 26 May 1862, wounded in 1863, was
>awarded The Southern Cross Of Honor in June 1906.
>
>Also a John Bishop mentioned. b. 1728, d. 1820 Montgomery Co, Va.
>
>Anyone know this family?
>
>I was given information on a book, "John Bishop, The Settler", by George W.
>Brysan Jr. I ordered the book this morning, but Im so impatient. Thought I
>wouls see if I can find cousins with this new information.
>
>Thanks
>
>Barbara
>
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>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:25:23 -0800
>From: phyllis gibbs zentgraf <>
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>Subject: THE BISHOP FAMILY
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>Barbara,
>
>I found this in one of the books I have. Floyd County, A History of
>its People and Places, by Dr. Amos D. Wood. page 17
>
>
> The Bishop Family
>
>
> John Bishop, who was born in Holland, emigrated from that country to
>America and settled at the mouth of Indian Creek in the present county
>of Floyd in about the year 1777. He came with his wife Mary, and their
>four children. His wife was drowned while attempting to cross the New
>River on horseback. After the tragedy he married a Miss Simpkins. From
>this John Bishop all of the family of Bishops of Floyd County are
>descended. Four of the Bishop children were; Dr. John, Jr. , Henry,
>Jacob and Mary. Henry Bishop married Nancy Quesenberry and was a
>Methodist minister. Jacob Bishop married Melvina Kinser and was also a
>Methodist minister. Mary Bishop married Mathew Cox, Jr., and one member
>of their large family was Dr. Aris B. Cox, a physician and Methodist
>minister.
> Dr. John Bishop, Jr. the son of the settler, married Dicey Cox,
>daughter of Ambrose and Sallie (Reed) Cox, and lived on Indian Creek.
>Dr. Bishop was an herb doctor or a "Thompsonian doctor" and had a
>neighborhood practice of medicine. He was a wealthy man, owning a large
>boundary of land and many slaves who were freed before his death. His
>children were: Asa, Jacob, John, Nancy, Peggy (Margaret), Mary, Lucy and
>Mahala.
> Asa Bishop, the eldest son of John and Dicey, married Elizabeth
>Dodd, daughter of Benjamin Dodd. They lived one mile west of the
>courthouse, on the Dodd homestead, one of the finest farms in the
>county. Their son, Burdine Bishop (b. Oct 9,1845) resided on the farm
>and was one of Floyds foremost citizens. He was a member of the
>Legislature of Virginia in 1883 and 1884. He married Mary Scott,
>youngest daughter of Mathew and Mary Ann (Strickler) Scott, and their
>only child Allie, who married a Mr. Munsey of Big Stone Gap. Birdine
>Bishop died Nov. 26, 1927, at age 82 years and is buried in the Dodd
>Family burying ground on his farm. Other children of Asa and Elizabeth
>were: Angeline, who married Samuel Harter; Catherine, who married
>Bethuel Hylton; Emeline, who fied in infacny; Wesley, who married Lydia
>Caldwell; Julia, who married Harvey Slusher; Mary, who married Reed
>Kitterman; Harvey,who married Julia Clay; and Emily, who married
>Thompson Harman.
> Dr. Jacob Bishop, second son of John and Dicsy, married Lucy Cox,
>and was a well-known physician of Floyd County. John Bishop, third son
>of John, married Sarah Goad and lived in Floyd. Nancy Bishop, eldest
>daughter of John, married Thomas w. williamson, son of George
>Williamson, and lived for many years in Indian Valley, where he was one
>of the first men to open a store and haul goods from Lynchburg,
>Virginia, in wagons, the first wagons to cross the mountains into Indian
>Valley. He later moved to Floyd Court House, and for many years kept a
>tavern.
> Mary Bishop, daughter of Dr. John Bishop, married John Harman
>(1814-1893), son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Slusher) Harman. They lived
>at the old Harman homestead which they inherite together with the old
>mill on West Fork, one of the oldest mills in that part of the county.
>Their children were; JamesM., Malinda, Margart, Nancy, Mary, and Sarah
>of whom Dr. James M. Harman, a prominent physician, was long located at
>Willis, Virginia.
> Lucy Bishop, another daughter of John and Dicey (Cox) Bishop,
>married Charles Simmons, and lived in Floyd County. Peggy (Margaret)
>Bishop, fourth daugher of John, married Sparrel Slusher, son of David
>Slusher, and lived in the county of Floyd. Mahala Bishop, youngest
>daughter of John, married John Wade and lived in the west end of the
>county.
>
>
>Barbara, don't know if these are yours or not. Good Hunting.
>
>Phyllis Z
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