Rev Tillman Webster Bishop

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Rev Tillman Webster Bishop

Birth
Magee, Simpson County, Mississippi, USA
Death
8 Jan 1967 (aged 88)
Magee, Simpson County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Magee, Simpson County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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left side after entry; row 29; pic 910
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Social Security and World War I Registration has his birthdate as Jan 27, 1877 not 1878 as headstone shows.
Social Security has his deathdate as Jan 15, 1967, not Jan 08, 1967 as headstone shows.

Baptist Minister Dies In Magee
MAGEE — Rev. T. Webster Bishop, 90, retired Baptist minister, died at his residence Sunday morning after a long illness.

Mr. Bishop was the founder of the Goshen Baptist Church near Magee and was a member of an old family in Simpson county. He had served numbers of churches in South Mississippi.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from the Goshen Baptist Church. Interment will he in Magee cemetery. The body will be at the Mims-Mitchell Funeral Home until the service hour.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Bishop, Magee; four sons, T. Melvin and George Bishop of Magee, Grover Bishop of Jackson, Jimmy Bishop of Decatur, Ala.; three daughters, Mrs. Lola Canoy, Magee, Mrs. Oree Fortenberry, Kenner, La., Mrs. Lucille Tollels [Towles], New Orleans: twenty-eight grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren.

Clipped from Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, 09 Jan 1967, Mon • Page 6
Social Security and World War I Registration has his birthdate as Jan 27, 1877 not 1878 as headstone shows.
Social Security has his deathdate as Jan 15, 1967, not Jan 08, 1967 as headstone shows.

Baptist Minister Dies In Magee
MAGEE — Rev. T. Webster Bishop, 90, retired Baptist minister, died at his residence Sunday morning after a long illness.

Mr. Bishop was the founder of the Goshen Baptist Church near Magee and was a member of an old family in Simpson county. He had served numbers of churches in South Mississippi.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from the Goshen Baptist Church. Interment will he in Magee cemetery. The body will be at the Mims-Mitchell Funeral Home until the service hour.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Bishop, Magee; four sons, T. Melvin and George Bishop of Magee, Grover Bishop of Jackson, Jimmy Bishop of Decatur, Ala.; three daughters, Mrs. Lola Canoy, Magee, Mrs. Oree Fortenberry, Kenner, La., Mrs. Lucille Tollels [Towles], New Orleans: twenty-eight grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren.

Clipped from Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, 09 Jan 1967, Mon • Page 6

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