John Baker Bishop Casualty from the SS Tuscania WWI Submitted by: Gene Phillips 30 Dec 2007 Return to Miltary Archives Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/military/military.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Copied with permission from: http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/shogun/bishop.htm John B. Bishop 165th Depot Brigade, 9th Battalion, 32nd Company - Camp Travis Detachment #2 Information supplied by: Movita Harris movitaharris{at}yahoo.com G-Grandniece Letter dated January 21, 1918: http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/shogun/bishop2.htm See Casualty List: http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/Remember/US_Army.html WWI Service Card: http://renton.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/Tuscania/priory/bishop724-6.jpg My family and I are very impressed and grateful for your excellent web site. My great grandmother's brother died when the Tuscania went down. He was Private John B Bishop, b. 3/15/1893, d. 2/5/1918. On his gravestone in Foster Cemetery, Foster, OK it says "32nd Co. 9th Bat. 165 Dept. Brigade Camp Travis. I found him in your lists. Movita Harris February 17, 2007 John Baker Bishop - Foster, Garvin Co., Oklahoma Army Rank: Private (1918). Assigned Unit: 165th Depot Brigade, 9th Battalion, 32nd Company Army Serial Number: Inducted: Army Discharge: Eternal Watch Remarks: Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918 Address: Foster (Elmore Twp.), Garvin County, OK (1910)(1918) Address: Ada, Pontotoc Co., Oklahoma (1917) Features: Tall, Stout build, Brown eyes, Brown hair Fathers Name: John Henry Bishop (b. Oct. 25, 1840 Arkansas) (d. Dec. 6, 1900 Foster, OK) Mothers Name: Sarah Jane Eldridge (b. Dec. 25, 1851 Texas)(d. 1919 Houston, TX) Married: Dec. 25, 1866 Brown County Texas Brothers: Peter, Joe, Samuel, Tom, Robert, and Newton Bishop Sisters: Julia, Lillie, and Rosa Bishop Occupation: Farmer – John Daley farm, Ada, Oklahoma (1917) Born: March 15, 1893 Foster, Garvin Co., Oklahoma Died: Feb. 5, 1918 at Sea, Scotland’s Coast Buried at Port Charlotte, Islay February 8, 1918 Body exhumed and relocated to America; 1920 or thereafter Cemetery: Foster Cemetery, Foster, Oklahoma Plot: QC-M --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Miltary Archives Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/military/military.html