Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....C. H. Bishop June 28 1858 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    C. H. BISHOP is a native of Alabama and was born within two miles of
Clayton, in Barbour county, on the 28th day of June, 1858. His father, Bolin
Bishop, was born in Florida in the year 1815, and came to Barbour county when a
young man, settling near Spring Hill, where he lived until his death in 1873. He
was married, about the year 1839, to Nancy Streator, and became the father of
six children, three sons and three daughters, namely: Mary, wife of H. J.
Williamson; Emma, wife of M. L. Passmore; W. S., merchant at Spring Hill; J. M.,
agent for the B. B. Corner estate ; Carrie, deceased at the age of eighteen, and
C. H. C. H. Bishop with a good common school education began life as a farmer,
and from the early age of seventeen has been fighting his own battles. After
remaining on the home farm three years he engaged as clerk in a mercantile
establishment at Spring Hill, and in 1877 became manager of the B. B. Comer
business and farming interests, in which capacity he is still acting. He began
this work at the insignificant remuneration of $10 per month, but, by successful
management and superior business sagacity, has since been enabled to accumulate
very valuable property and is now the possessor of two large plantations, one of
2,700 acres in Barbour county, and another, consisting of 1,070 acres, in the
county of Bullock. Mr. Bisohp is systematic, punctual and correct in all his
business transactions, and, possessing a genial nature and eminent social
qualities, has become very popular among all with whom he comes in contact. He
has a beautiful home and interesting family and is a true type of the courteous
and intelligent southern gentleman. His first marriage was solemnized in
October, 1878, with Laura Long, whose death occurred in June of the following
year. In December, 1881, Mr. Bishop married Edna Fong, a sister of his first
wife, and by her is the father of three children, two of whom, John Fletcher and
Harry Brannon, are living. Mr. Bishop and wife are members of the Methodist
church and he is a master Mason, belonging to Ebenezer lodge.

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