Willard Alexander Bishop

Brief Life History of Willard Alexander

When Willard Alexander Bishop was born on 15 December 1889, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Bishop, was 26 and his mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Graham, was 23. He married Vera Claudia Francell Salisbury on 24 December 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Malheur City, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1950 and World for about 10 years. He died on 22 May 1990, in Nyssa, Malheur, Oregon, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in Nyssa, Malheur, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Willard Alexander Bishop
1889–1990
Vera Claudia Francell Salisbury
1890–1976
Marriage: 24 December 1913
Vera Bishop
1915–1915
Hazel Ileen Bishop
1915–2009
Francell Elizabeth Bishop
1917–1994
Margaret Jean Bishop
1919–1930
Willard Claude Bishop
1923–1949
Donald Francis Bishop
1926–2014
Margery Joy Bishop
1930–2015

Sources (69)

  • Willard A Bishop, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Willard Alexander Bishop - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Willard Alexander Bishop
  • Willard A. Bishop, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

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1894 · The Genealogical Society of Utah is formed.

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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 ).

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