Obituary of Mr. BISHOP, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX, 75013

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date: March 19, 1931

Headline:  Jena Man's Father Called by Death
Sub-Headline: Marshal W. H. Bishop Spends Part of Week in New Orleans

Marshal W. H. Bishop returned to Jena Wednesday night from New Orleans where 
he attended the funeral of his father, who was buried Sunday.  While there he 
stayed over for the Peace Officers' Convention, which was held in the 
Crescent City Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Mr. Bishop brought back a letter he found among his father's personal 
effects; he also found newspapers dated February 27, 1910, and a statement 
dated 1905.

The letter, which is incomplete, only pages 19, 20, 23 and 24 being found, is 
an unusually interesting piece of manuscript, which was apparently written 
about the time the Federal troops were entering Arkansas, as the letter 
refers to the writer making a trip with a yoke of oxen, a horse, a slave boy, 
and of him encountering Federal troops near Batesville, and that he learned 
the troops were moving on Little Rock.  The writer traveled day and night to 
outdistance the moving army.

The letter is written on "foolscap" paper, very legibly penned and with few 
exceptions, where the ink has faded, it can be clearly read.

With Mr. Bishop's permission, The Times will perhaps have the four pages of 
this letter set into type and carry it in this paper at a future date.  It 
will no doubt prove interesting to many readers.