Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Mary BISHOP

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WELL-KNOWN Resident Mrs. Mary Bishop died at her home on Church street,
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1912, aged nearly 89 years. The funeral will be held this
afternoon at 2:30. A more extended obituary will be published next week.
January 25, 1912, Evansville, Review, Evansville, Wisconsin

DEATH OF OLD Settler

Mrs. Mary Bishop of this city died Jan. 23, 1912, aged nearly 89 years. The
funeral took place Thursday from her late home, the services being
conducted by her pastor, Rev. D. Q. Grabill of the Congregational Church.

Mary Smith was born in Gerry, Chautauqua county, New York, July 12, 1823,
of Quaker ancestry. She was married in her native village to Norman Hough
on the 25th of March, 1845. After the birth of three children they removed
to Wisconsin in 1853. Except for a little time spent in Minnesota they
resided in southern Wisconsin until Mr. Hough's death which occurred April
17, 1868. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hough in their Wisconsin
home, but the entire family passed away before their mother's death.

Mrs. Mary Hough was married to Hiram Bishop in Evansville, November 30,
1871, and to them one child, Arthur L. was born in the town of Union, Rock
County, July 21, 1873.

Arthur L. Bishop, sole survivor of Mrs. Bishop's seven children is now a
resident of Canal Dover, Ohio. 

After 12 years residence on their farm in the town of Union Mr. and Mrs.
Bishop removed to their home in Evansville, where Mr. Bishop died March 21,
1890.

Relatives from outside Evansville in attendance at her funeral were: Her
son Arthur and his wife of Ohio, three grandaughters, Mesdames Bacon and
Hanson of Oregon and Johnson of Milton and their husbands; a great
granddaughter, Pauline Haynes of South Dakota, two sons-in-law, William Roe
of Oregon and Rev. Robert Bennett of Rio, Wis., a daughter-in-law, Barbara
Hough of Brooklyn and two step-children, Albert Bishop and sister Mrs.
Alice Campbell of Sibley, Iowa, and Harry Welsh of Oregon, husband of
deceased granddaughter.

Mrs. Campbell always seemed like an own child to Mrs. Bishop, and her
thoughtful kindly acts made life much more pleasant for her second mother.

From early womanhood Mrs. Bishop's life was one in which hardships and
sorrows came with a frequency that would have broken or embittered a weaker
woman, but from each trouble she emerged with faith unshaken and with
courage to meet the trials to come. Lately when asked how she had always
kept serene and sweet through all her trouble and sorrow, she replied, "I
have always trusted in God and lived one day at a time." 

One day at at time! how few there are who can live only in God's present,
with no remorseful regrets for the past and no fears for the future.
February 1, 1912, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin