When Mallie Ellen Bishop was born on 21 July 1885, in Wolfe, Kentucky, United States, her father, George Washington Bishop, was 33 and her mother, Mary Clementine Brooks, was 35. She married Eugene McCurry on 18 October 1903, in Coryell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States in 1920 and Mitchell, Texas, United States in 1935. She died on 30 January 1966, in Colorado City, Mitchell, Texas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Colorado City, Mitchell, Texas, United States.
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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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