Obituaries: Jessie D. Bishop, 1954, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************


 



From: May 11, 1954 Winnfield News-American

Drowning Victim's Funeral Services Held Sunday P. M.

Funeral services for Jessie D. Bishop, age 22, who drowned in Grand River 27
miles below Plaquemine on early last Friday morning, were held Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the New Jerusalem Church. Services were conducted by
the Rev. Earnes Evans, assisted by Rev. E. B. Barton and Rev. H. J. Mott, and
interment was in the church cemetery.

Young Bishop was working in the Bayou Pigeon area with the Marine Exploration
Company. Sheriff C. A. Griffon of Iberville Parish, who investigated the
accident, reported that Bishop and five other men were in a boat crossing
Grand River when it began to sink. While the others jumped to safety Bishop
for some reason was unable to leave the boat and it is believed that he was
caught in the current and carried down stream.

The party of men was returning to camp after the river ferry had tied up for
the night, which forced them, according to the reports, to engage a private
boat to take them across. About midstream the motor had to be shut off and it
was then the boat began to sink and Bishop was unable to reach safety.

They body was recovered and transferred to Winnfield to await funeral 
arrangements.

Survivors include his grandmother, Mrs. J. A. Cogley, parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse L. Bishop, and one brother, Lee Dell Bishop of Winnfield; also a second
brother, Johnny Bishop, and a sister, Mrs. Blanche Evans of Orange, Texas.

Pallbearers were men of the local National Guard Unit, of which the deceased
was a member.