Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Bishop was born on 26 May 1824, in Bedford, Shawswick Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States, her father, Samuel Dennis Bishop, was 30 and her mother, Huldah Daniels, was 24. She married Nathan Baker Preston on 9 January 1848, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Monroe, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Valley Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died on 26 July 1908, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States.
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Sources (13)
- Emily P Preston in household of C W Preston, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Emily Bishop - Individual or family possessions: birth:
- Emaley Bishop, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
Spouse and Children
1818–1900 Male
1824–1908 Female
Children (5)
1848– Male
1851–1926 Male
about 1853– Male
1855–1904 Female
1865–1936 Female
Parents and Siblings
1793–1881 Male
1799–1868 Female
Siblings (7)
1824–1908 Female
1824–1908 Female
1827–1911 Male
1829–1915 Male
1832–1907 Female
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World Events (8)
1825 · The Crimes Act
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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.
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