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Note: I have a website on MyFamily.com re this family with a picture of three of the daughters, Virginia, Sallie, and Doborah, and a picture of William Henry Harrison, Virginia's husband. Abt 1815: LDS Microfiche for West Virginia, March 1992 Version,p. 439, based upon information submitted by Jacob G. Bigler, a relative, for LDS Microfilm 183558, Ferdinand D. Bishop, Reference 7058, was born about 1815 in Preston County.
However, Salt Lake Temple Records, filmed by the Genealogical Society in Salt Lake City, Ut ah, entitled "Endowments for the Dead, Male, Book A, 1937," includes a list submitted by Bigler, which names Ferdinand D. Bishop, Reference 13863, along with
his father and brothers, as being "of Preston Co., W.Va", meaning they had lived there, but were not necessarily born there.
1817: According to Jimmie Lee Svoboda (jimmiel@ev1.net), a descendant of Ferdinand's, family records have him as Ferdinand B. Bishop born in 1817, and his son as Ferdinand David Bishop, who moved to Texas when young Ferdinand was about three years of
age. Jimmie received her information from her Aunt Henrietta Vickers and has a Bishop site on MyFamily.com in which she has pictures of Bishops of Texas, their descendants, cemeteries, and tombstones.
1850-1851: Estimated marriage date. Janice Cale Sisler, Preston County, WV historian, could find no marriage record for Ferdinand there. It is unknown where Ferdinand married Mary, but according to family records and the censuses, Ferdinand's first
four children were born in Mississippi.
21 Oct 1851: Virginia, Ferdinand and Mary's eldest known child was born this date in Jackson Co, Mississippi, according to her death certificate.
Abt 1857: Ferdinand B. Bishop moved his family to Livingston, Polk Co, Texas, according to his descendants' family records, where four more children were born. The birthdates of all the members of the family, the names of their spouses, dates of
death and burial places, if any, were provided by Svoboda, Ibid. The birthplaces came from the 1870 and 1880 censuses.
1860 Texas, Polk Co, Livingston Census, P. 27:
T. B. [sic] Bishop, 44, b VA, merchant, $6000 [?], $10,000;
Mary Bishop, 31, b NC;
Virginia Bishop, 8, b MS;
Ferdinand Bishop, 6, b MS;
J. W. Bishop, 4, b MS;
Mary Bishop, 2, b MS;
Joseph Patterson,24, b MS.
17 Oct 1861: Ferdinand's brother, William Harry Bishop, an attorney residing in Marion Co, Mississippi, wrote his will this date shortly after enlisting into the Confederate forces there, where he rose to Colonel. He designated that his brother F. D.
Bishop and his friend J. P. Barnes be the executors. He wrote that his mother, Rebecca C. Bishop and his niece Martha Virginia Bishop [believed to be Ferdinand's eldest daughter], each were to get $2000; his brothers Jacques A. Bishop, Carr McCurdy
Bishop, Adam H. Bishop and his sister Ann Rebecca C. Bishop each were to get $1000 all in cash or good notes. Whatever was left over was to be divided equally among his other brothers and his father, i.e., F. D. Bishop, C. M. Bishop, James R. Bishop,
and Adam Bishop. [In the 1860 Census, William showed he had the means to award such bequests.]
Unfortunately, by the time the will was heard in court, Ferdinand and J. P. Barnes were in Texas. Barnes had renounced his executor duties before he moved there, so the judge appointed the sheriff to administer the estate. The addresses for the
family members were said to be unknown, and an ad was placed in a neighboring county. It appears to me people lined up to make their claims against the estate and William's house, wiping out his estate. The family got nothing. The only indication
that the family knew about the will was that a claim was entered for Virginia, Ferdinand's daughter, who was a minor.
1870 Texas, Polk Co, Livingston Census, p. 428, lines 21 ff, (Image 22 on Ancestry's Census Images Online): Ferdinand, 54, hotelkeeper, $1000, $1000, born in VA; wife Mary, 40 or 48, housekeeping, born in NC; and eight children: Virginia,18, b in
MS; David, 15, b in MS; John W.,13, b in MS; Mary, 11, b in MS; Adda, 10, b in TX; Samuel, 8, b in TX; Sallie, 6, b in TX; and Deborah, 2, b in TX. John, May, Adda, Samuel, Sallie, and Deborah all attended school. Jimmie Lee Svboda wrote: "The
Bishop children attended the Livingston School that was located in the Masonic Lodge on the west side of the Founders Cemetery property."
Jimmie Lee (Bishop) Svoboda said that there were 5 children born in Texas and 4 born in Mississippi, but she gave me the names of only eight. (Connie Reed on Bishop@telelists.com first alerted me in Jan 2000 that there was a Ferdinand Bishop listed in
this census on a FTM Census CD, p. 428 with an Ireliana, and that there were two Ferdinands in the 1880 Census.)
1880 Texas, Polk Co Census, p. 1, line 34 ff. Ferdinand, 63, hotel keeper, b in VA to parents both born in VA; wife Mary/Marge, 57, had rheumatism, and was b in Reanamahan?, NC, whose father was born in VA and mother in NC; and four children: John
W, 23, who worked on the farm; Addie, 19; Sallie, 14, attending school; and Debbie, 11, attending school. Following their names is a list of 11 boarders, presumably staying at the hotel. Other boarders' names may have spilled over to the next page,
which I do not have.
I have not found Ferdinand and Mary in any censuses thereafter.
Before 3 Feb 1902: Ferdinand's brother, Charles, died this date and his obituary of the 6th says that Ferdinand had died before him.
Note; Miss Ruth Peebles, Polk County historian, believes that Ferdinand and his wife are buried at the Old Livingston Cemetery with their sons John and Ferdinand D. Bishop Jr., but has nothing to prove it.
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