Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bishop, Walter S., 1913 

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WALTER STITH BISHOP

DEATH OF WALTER STITH BISHOP

   In the sixty-seventh year of his life early on the morning of April 1st, 
1913 the spirit of Walter Stith Bishop returned to the Lord who gave it.  He 
was ill for three weeks and at first there was hope of recovery but soon he, 
as well as his loved ones, realized that his disease was fatal and at best his 
days were few.  He spoke of death with the blessed assurance that it was well 
with his soul.  He said a few days before he died, "It is all right, my only 
regret is that I must leave my children and I hate most of all to leave my 
dear wife."  He was happily married to Miss Georgette White over forty-eight 
years ago who survives him, besides two daughters; Mrs. J.H. Drake and Mrs. 
B.A. Porter; three sons, J.F. Bishop, S.S. Bishhop and K.R. Bishop, also 
sixteen grand-children and four great grand children.  He was certainly a 
faithful and devoted husband and father. 

   In the absence of his pastor the funeral was conducted by his Presiding 
Elder, Rev. S.J. Brown of Portsmouth.  The funeral and interment took place at 
his late home, a large crowd of friends and loved ones gathering to pay the 
last tribute of respect.  His home was near Handsom and he lived all his life, 
died and was buried within a few hundred yards of his birth-place.  All of his 
children lived near him and were constantly with him during his illness, and 
all that love and medical skill could do was done, but God took him. 

   He was for many years a faithful member of Mt. Horeb Methodist Church 
keeping his church vow, "To attend upon its ordinances and support its 
institutions." 

   May God's grace comfort the bereaved ones and may heaven be theirs' also. 


Walter Stith BISHOP, 
b. near Handsom, Southampton Co., d. 1 Apr 1913, at home (birthplace), age 67, 
interred in a BISHOP family cemetery*, on Sunbeam Rd.,  
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 18, 1913 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-22): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt 


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