Sunday, May 13, 2012

Philip Bishop


From the Marysville Evening Tribune May 13, 1938


DEATH CLAIMS PHILIP BISHOP


WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN PASSED AWAY THURSDAY EVENING AT HIS HOME HERE


Philip Bishop, aged 78, a retired farmer and one of Marysville’s best known citizens, passed away about 7:45 o’clock Thursday evening at his home, 418 West Fifth Street, following an illness of five day.
Mr. Bishop was born on a farm on the Weaver Road on December 8, 1859, to the late George and Magdalena Gase Bishop, and spent his entire life in this community. He was a farmer for many years and at the time of his death still owned a farm just south of Bridgeport, where his son William Bishop and family reside.
Mr. Bishop was preceded in death by six sisters and three brothers. He was twice married. His first marriage was to Miss Anna Barbara Emmert on April 10, 1882. On September 30, 1917, he united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Asman, who survives. Besides his wife and son, William, there survives a daughter, Mrs. William P. Vollrath of Milford Center, seven grandchildren; a brothers, George Bishop of Milford Center and sister, Mrs. Caroline Fogle of Marion. One grandchild, Walter Bishop, is deceased.
Funeral services Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the late residence in West Fifth Street and at 2:30 o’clock at Trinity Lutheran Church, of which he was an active member until his recent illness. Rev. E. J Goedeking, pastor of the church will officiate at the services. Interment in St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in charge of Funeral Director L. H. Miller. 

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