Glynn-Terrell County GaArchives Obituaries.....BISHOP, Peyton Wade April 21, 1950 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 May 22, 2009, 1:31 am The Brunswick News; Friday 21 April 1950; pg. 10 col. 1 PEYTON BISHOP FATALLY HURT IN U.S. 17 MISHAP—Automobile Crashes Into Rear End of Tractor-Trailer Peyton Wade Bishop, 2002 Ellis street, was fatally injured last night when the car which he was driving ploughed into the rear of a tractor-trailer on U.S. Highway 17 on Blythe Island. The 35-year-old veteran died without regaining consciousness soon after reaching City Hospital. Thomas H. Long of Glen Burnie, Md., the operator of the tractor-trailer, was unhurt. Coroner L.M. Harrison announced that an inquest into the death will be conducted this afternoon at 3 o’clock. County police quoted Long as saying he was traveling north on U.S. 17 and his vehicle was barely moving. He said he was preparing to turn into a service station on the left side of the highway and was waiting for the lane for south- bound traffic to become clear. At this juncture, he told police, he observed the car which Bishop was driving approaching at a high rate of speed from the rear. Long began blinking his tail lights frantically in an effort to attract Bishop’s attention to the tractor-trailer. The driver of the car applied his brakes, and the automobile skidded 120 feet before crashing into the rear end of the tractor-trailer with a terrific impact, sufficient to demolish the car. Bishop, the victim of a brain injury, was carried to the hospital in an ambulance. One of the witnesses listed by police was Edwin Boartfield, another resident of Maryland. His truck was in front of the tractor-trailer, and like Long, he had slowed down to turn into the service station. Funeral arrangements for the victim are incomplete and will be announced later by the Miller Funeral Home. Bishop was a native of Dawson and lived her with his brother, H.O. Bishop. Other survivors are his mother, Mrs. Minnie Pearl Britt of Dawson, five half- brothers and one half-sister. The Brunswick News; Saturday 22 April 1950; pg. 8 col. 6 PEYTON BISHOP’S RITES WILL TAKE PLACE SUNDAY Funeral services for Peyton Wade Bishop, who was killed in an automobile accident on U.S. Highway 17 Thursday night, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m., at the chapel of the Miller Funeral Home with the Rev. Talbert Morgan, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Palmetto cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Arthur Poncell, Albert Hamilton, Curtis Wiggins, Manuel Sousa, Vital Ribeiro and John Machado. The 35-year-old veteran was killed when the car which he was driving crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer. An inquest into the death, set for Friday afternoon but postponed, was to be conducted at 2 p.m., today by Coroner L.M. Harrison. [no further record was found regarding the inquest results in the newspaper— ALH] Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at