Seth Morrison Bishop

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Seth Morrison Bishop

Birth
Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
6 Dec 1986 (aged 18)
Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.9745073, Longitude: -70.9589541
Plot
Section 1000, Lot 1108-A, Grave 2
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son of Samuel & Judy Sanborn Bishop

grandson of Grant Berry & Joan Morrison Sanborn and Theano Bishop Papazoglos

descendant of Honorable John Newell Sanborn & Reverend Stephen Bachiler/Batchelder who founded Hampton, New Hampshire in 1638

extremely gifted freshman at Northeastern University in Boston, studying electrical engineering; accomplished violinist who was a member of Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra; winner of several science awards; belonged, with his dad, to Braintree Rifle Club and had a firearms ID card

per police and newspaper reports, was shot in chest by his sister Amy Bishop (Anderson); pronounced dead at Quincy City Hospital

Personal story on Seth's death:
http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/state/x723439526/1986-story-on-the-death-of-Seth-Bishop

Sister indicted in June of 2010 with his murder after shooting Alabama professors, killing three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uluY0zA4yk8

But Massachusetts decided not to pursue after she was sentenced to life in prison in Alabama:
https://www.waff.com/story/27976276/uah-shooter-amy-bishop-anderson-requests-another-new-trial/

2020 Wikipedia entry for Seth's sister Amy Bishop Anderson's deeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting

Seth was a distant cousin to many of us, including me, through Governor/Founder Tristram Coffin of Nantucket Island.

Suggested edit: I suggest a link to his nephew and namesake, Seth Bishop Anderson, who was murdered in 2021.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227101391/seth-bishop-anderson
Contributor: drbusybody (47859386)
son of Samuel & Judy Sanborn Bishop

grandson of Grant Berry & Joan Morrison Sanborn and Theano Bishop Papazoglos

descendant of Honorable John Newell Sanborn & Reverend Stephen Bachiler/Batchelder who founded Hampton, New Hampshire in 1638

extremely gifted freshman at Northeastern University in Boston, studying electrical engineering; accomplished violinist who was a member of Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra; winner of several science awards; belonged, with his dad, to Braintree Rifle Club and had a firearms ID card

per police and newspaper reports, was shot in chest by his sister Amy Bishop (Anderson); pronounced dead at Quincy City Hospital

Personal story on Seth's death:
http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/state/x723439526/1986-story-on-the-death-of-Seth-Bishop

Sister indicted in June of 2010 with his murder after shooting Alabama professors, killing three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uluY0zA4yk8

But Massachusetts decided not to pursue after she was sentenced to life in prison in Alabama:
https://www.waff.com/story/27976276/uah-shooter-amy-bishop-anderson-requests-another-new-trial/

2020 Wikipedia entry for Seth's sister Amy Bishop Anderson's deeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting

Seth was a distant cousin to many of us, including me, through Governor/Founder Tristram Coffin of Nantucket Island.

Suggested edit: I suggest a link to his nephew and namesake, Seth Bishop Anderson, who was murdered in 2021.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227101391/seth-bishop-anderson
Contributor: drbusybody (47859386)