Brief Life History of Erma
When Erma Bishop was born on 5 December 1908, in Holden, Millard, Utah, United States, her father, John Avery Bishop, was 23 and her mother, Louisa Lemira Walker, was 23. She married Anthony William Stephenson on 15 May 1934, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Delta Election Precinct, Millard, Utah, United States in 1940 and Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 16 December 1972, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Cedar City Cemetery, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Bishop Stephenson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Erma Bishop, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Erma Bishop, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1909 · The Cathedral of the Madeleine
The Cathedral of the Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church that was completed in 1909 and currently serves as a cathedral for the Catholic community in Salt Lake City. It is the only cathedral in the U.S. under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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Missionary, Sister Erma Bishop
Erma Bishop (later Stephenson) served as a sister missionary in the Central States Mission. She started in San Antonio, Texas on 19 May 1929 at the age of twenty. Obviously in those days the sisters …
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