Harry Stanley Bishop by Lois Eleanor (Bishop) Allison
	     Bishop Reunion Saturday, June 3rd, 1995

[Talk given by Lois Eleanor (Bishop) Allison about her father and mother, 
Harry Stanley Bishop and Eunice Alvia (Clement) at the Bishop Reunion of June 
1995 - Margaret Jean (Bishop) Fullerton, Feb 1998]

	Hello:  I'd like to introduce myself so you will know who I am going 
to tell you about.  I'm the youngest child of Harry and Aliva Bishop.  Some 
call me Eleanor and others call me Lois.  Either way I'd like to tell you 
about my Dad, Harry Stanley Bishop.

	I'd like to take you back to the year 1908 when he was just 19 years 
old.  He had just completed telegraphy school at Cincinnati, Ohio and 
started his first employment in telegraphy, railroad accounting, and typing 
for the M.K.T. railroad.  At the time he was going with a fair young maiden 
by the name of Alvia Clements.  After a few years and due to the distance 
between them he chose to come to Missouri and seek employment in politics.  
He was elected Assessor of Montgomery County in 1912 and married his true 
love on Jan. 27th, 1914.  They started their life together on a farmstead 
near New Florence, Mo. and with the help of his brother, Addison, he farmed 
and kept the Assessor position until 1920.

	He then moved to a farm just east of Montgomery City.  At this time 
his family consisted of two boys, namely Clark Wilson, and Harry Samuel and 
one girl, Nellie Irene.  Two more children were born here, namely John Wlliam 
and Lois Eleanor.  He stayed on this little farm and farmed for 12 years and 
then the depression was a hardship on him and caused a great effort for him 
to stay on.  He took his family and moved in with his brother John and 
mother Alice just west of Montgomery City.  He farmed with him and brother 
Jim until 1939 when he bought another farm just west of Middletown, Mo.  At 
this time only two children were still at home.  Clark had married Lucille 
Graham and Nellie had married Clinton Frost.  Sam was working in the C.C.C. 
camp in south Mo. so John and Eleanor were the only ones left in school.

	This remained his home until his death in 1964 at the age of 75.  
They celebrated 50 years of marriage with five children and twelve 
grandchildren.  His wife, Alvia, lived 17 more years at her home in 
Wellsville, Mo. and passed away at the age of 88 in 1981.  Clark, the oldest 
son, was taken two years later in 1983 at the age of 68.  A daughter-in-law, 
Delia, was taken the next year in 1984.

	They have three children that have celebrated their golden 
anniversaries.  Nellie and Clinton Frost in 1988, Eleanor and Arthur Allison 
in 1993 and John and Eathel Bishop in 1995.

	There are now four living children, twelve grandchildren, and 28 
great-grandchildren.  Now 106 years after Harry was born we have the fifth 
generation of 6 great-great-grandchildren.  I only hope one or several will 
keep record of this family tree.

				Deaths In Family

	Samuel C. Bishop  	July 24th 1931		age 81 years
	Alice (his wife)	Dec. 12th 1950		age 96 years
	Elieud A. Bishop	killed June 28th 1923	age 49 years
	Wilford G. Bishop	Sept. 12th 1957		age 81 years
	Samuel Clarence Bishop	Oct. 1972		age 93 years
	John Dewitt Bishop	1881-1965		age 84 years
	Addison Bishop		1883-1932		age 49 years
	Roy C. Bishop		Dec. 1st 1988		age 103 years
	Harry S. Bishop		Sept. 17th 1964		age 75 years
	Howel Bishop		April 8th 1991		age 99 years
	James M. Bishop		1898-1973		age 75 years

		Family of Samuel C and Alice (Hayden) Bishop