Ursula (Whited) Bishop Alexander (1904)

ALEXANDER, BISHOP, WHITED

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/13/2009 at 13:24:49

Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, August 19, 1904
Page 8

St. Charles Items

URSULA BISHOP

Mrs. Ursula Bishop, mother of A. D. Bishop of Hanley died Tuesday and was buried on the 18th. She was a very aged lady and has been very feeble for some time and had for many years resided with her son who gave her every attention possible, and cared for her only as a devoted son could.
________________________

Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, August 25, 1904
Page 7

Ursula Whited was born in Shelby county, Indiana March 26, 1822. Married David Bishop August 27, 1836. Became the mother of fourteen children, five of whom survive her. The couple came to Madison county, Iowa in 1846 and established a home on section seven in South township. Theirs was the eleventh family to make a home in the county. Her husband was one of the first recorders of Madison county.

She early united with the Christian church at Winterset and remained a faithful member through life.

In October 1865 she lost her husband by death. In 1868 she remarried to Elijah Alexander, who died in 1871 since which time she has been an inmate of the home of her son, A. H. Bishop in what is now Hanley.

She lived a modest Christian life, was a typical, thoroughgoing, industrious, frugal pioneer, one of the class of good people who contributed so largely to the establishment of the religious and social advantages enjoyed by the people of Iowa.

She died August 17th in her eighty-third year.

Funeral from the home on the morning of the 18th, services by Rev. Rarick in the M.E. church at Hanley. Burial was in the St. Charles cemetery in the presence of a very large number of relatives and sympathizing friends and neighbors.

Gravestone Photo
 

Madison Obituaries maintained by Linda Griffith Smith.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen