When Cyrus Silas Bishop was born on 15 December 1850, in Fulton, Illinois, United States, his father, Pvt. Thomas Bishop, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Southwood, was 19. He married Martha Jane Krider on 15 September 1872, in Fulton, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Young Hickory Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Saint David, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 13 February 1923, in Buckheart Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Maryville Cemetery, Bryant, Fulton, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1865: Fulton, Illinois, United States
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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