Henry County, KY = Bios:  Bishop, Elisha
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Elisha BISHOP 3470, Henry Co. 

Surname: Bishop, Lindsey, Carpenter, Evans

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Henry Co

ELISHA BISHOP, M. D., was born in Henry County December 5, 1848. He is the third of a 
family of four sons and two daughters born to Elisha and Jemima (Lindsey) Bishop. His 
father, a farmer, was a native of Woodford County, born in 1805; he took an active part 
in all political matters, and was for many years a magistrate of Port Royal Precinct, 
Henry County; he died in 1865, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church; his wife was 
a native of Frederick County, Va., born near Winchester in 1816, was a member of the same 
church as her husband, and died in 1870. Subject's paternal grandfather, Elisha Bishop, 
was a native of Virginia, came to Kentucky about the year 1790, and was one of the earliest 
settlers of Woodford County, where he remained until 1806, moving thence to Henry County. 
The Doctor's maternal grandfather, Thomas Lindsey, was a native of Virginia, came to 
Kentucky in 1814, and settled on a farm near Eminence, Henry County, where he remained 
until his death in 1860. The subject of this sketch obtained his literary education in 
the high school of Eminence, and was graduated from Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, 
Ohio, in 1879, and commenced the practice of his chosen profession in the same year at 
Turner's Station, Henry Co., Ky., where he successfully continues. He was united in marriage, 
October 22, 1882, with Lillie Carpenter, daughter of S. P. Carpenter and Lucy (Evans) 
Carpenter, of Henry County, and the birth of one son, July 11, 1884, followed their union. 
Dr. Bishop is a member of the Baptist Church and also of the Masonic fraternity, Garfield 
Lodge, Turner's Station, and a member of the State board of health. W. T. Bishop, the third 
son of Elisha and Jemima Bishop, is engaged in farming in Bourbon County. I. N. Bishop, the 
fourth son, was a graduate of Bethel College; he died in 1885, holding two county offices, 
and was a young man of fine promise.