George Grant Bishop

4 December 1893–27 November 1967 (Age 73)
Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of George Grant

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.

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Family Time Line

George Grant Bishop
1893–1967
Pauline Ellen Brummett
1902–1967
Marriage: 1917
Delbert Lee Bishop
1921–2002
Elmer Bishop
1927–1928
Rosa Bishop
1924–
Bulah Bishop
1927–
Dessie L. Bishop
1929–1996

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1917Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States
    • Children

    (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Age 3
    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
    1900 · Governor Shot
    Age 7
    On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
    1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
    Age 20
    The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

    Name Meaning

    English: from Middle English bissop, biscop, Old English bisc(e)op ‘bishop’, which comes via Latin from Greek episkopos ‘overseer’. The Greek word was adopted early in the Christian era as a title for an overseer of a local community of Christians, and has yielded cognates in every European language: French évêque, Italian vescovo, Spanish obispo, Russian yepiskop, German Bischof, etc. The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them a supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on Saint Nicholas's Feast Day. In some instances the surname is from the rare Middle English (Old English) personal name Biscop ‘bishop’. As an Irish surname it is adopted for Mac Giolla Easpaig, meaning ‘servant of the bishop’ (see Gillespie ). In North America, this surname has absorbed, by assimilation and translation, at least some of continental European cognates, e.g. German Bischoff , Polish, Rusyn, Czech, and Slovak Biskup , Slovenian Škof (see Skoff ).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Bischoff
    Bispo
    Gillespie
    Episcopo
    Dean

    Sources (15)

    • George Bishop, "United States Census, 1930"
    • Geo Bishop in entry for U S Osborne and Rosa Bishop, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
    • George Bishop, "United States Census, 1920"

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