When George Grant Bishop was born on 4 December 1893, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States, his father, Noah Francis Bishop, was 45 and his mother, Martha Burke, was 27. He married Pauline Ellen Brummett in 1917, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 4, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Magisterial District 3, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States for about 30 years. He died on 27 November 1967, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Negro Creek Cemetery, Brodhead, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States.