When Henry Grant Bishop was born on 12 February 1884, in Scott, Virginia, United States, his father, General Wayne Bishop, was 30 and his mother, Anna Elizabeth Neely, was 39. He married Ethel Almeda DeZarn on 26 September 1909, in Russell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Taylor District, Scott, Virginia, United States for about 50 years. He died on 17 August 1961, in Clinchport, Scott, Virginia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Clinchport, Scott, Virginia, United States.
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Clinchport incorporated in 1894.
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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 ).
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