son of Seth Bishop and Sarah Simmons
never married
age 66 yrs
farmer
cause of death: self-inflicted gunshot wound
MO death cert. #58-024349
Simmons Man In Ill Health; Takes Own Life
A lifelong resident of Texas County, Alfred E. Bishop. 66, apparently took his own life with a 12-gauge shotgun Saturday afternoon at the home of his brother, Frank, with whom he was living, on Houston's Bado Route, one mile west of Simmons.
Mrs. Frank Bishop heard a shot from the woodshed behind their farm home, and found her brother-in-law dead from a shotgun blast in the chest. Death occurred instantly, according to Texas Count Coroner Jim Gentry, who said Bishop had been despondent over ill health for several months.
A veteran of World War. I, Bishop was a member of Rocky Branch church. He is survived by another brother, Hugh, of Marshall, Iowa and a sister, Mrs. Ollie Flowers, Bado Route, Houston.
Funeral .services were held Monday afternoon in Union Baptist Church, with the Rev. Payton Smyer officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
--Houston Herald 7/3/58 p.1
never married
age 66 yrs
farmer
cause of death: self-inflicted gunshot wound
MO death cert. #58-024349
Simmons Man In Ill Health; Takes Own Life
A lifelong resident of Texas County, Alfred E. Bishop. 66, apparently took his own life with a 12-gauge shotgun Saturday afternoon at the home of his brother, Frank, with whom he was living, on Houston's Bado Route, one mile west of Simmons.
Mrs. Frank Bishop heard a shot from the woodshed behind their farm home, and found her brother-in-law dead from a shotgun blast in the chest. Death occurred instantly, according to Texas Count Coroner Jim Gentry, who said Bishop had been despondent over ill health for several months.
A veteran of World War. I, Bishop was a member of Rocky Branch church. He is survived by another brother, Hugh, of Marshall, Iowa and a sister, Mrs. Ollie Flowers, Bado Route, Houston.
Funeral .services were held Monday afternoon in Union Baptist Church, with the Rev. Payton Smyer officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
--Houston Herald 7/3/58 p.1
son of Seth Bishop and Sarah Simmons
never married
age 66 yrs
farmer
cause of death: self-inflicted gunshot wound
MO death cert. #58-024349
Simmons Man In Ill Health; Takes Own Life
A lifelong resident of Texas County, Alfred E. Bishop. 66, apparently took his own life with a 12-gauge shotgun Saturday afternoon at the home of his brother, Frank, with whom he was living, on Houston's Bado Route, one mile west of Simmons.
Mrs. Frank Bishop heard a shot from the woodshed behind their farm home, and found her brother-in-law dead from a shotgun blast in the chest. Death occurred instantly, according to Texas Count Coroner Jim Gentry, who said Bishop had been despondent over ill health for several months.
A veteran of World War. I, Bishop was a member of Rocky Branch church. He is survived by another brother, Hugh, of Marshall, Iowa and a sister, Mrs. Ollie Flowers, Bado Route, Houston.
Funeral .services were held Monday afternoon in Union Baptist Church, with the Rev. Payton Smyer officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
--Houston Herald 7/3/58 p.1
never married
age 66 yrs
farmer
cause of death: self-inflicted gunshot wound
MO death cert. #58-024349
Simmons Man In Ill Health; Takes Own Life
A lifelong resident of Texas County, Alfred E. Bishop. 66, apparently took his own life with a 12-gauge shotgun Saturday afternoon at the home of his brother, Frank, with whom he was living, on Houston's Bado Route, one mile west of Simmons.
Mrs. Frank Bishop heard a shot from the woodshed behind their farm home, and found her brother-in-law dead from a shotgun blast in the chest. Death occurred instantly, according to Texas Count Coroner Jim Gentry, who said Bishop had been despondent over ill health for several months.
A veteran of World War. I, Bishop was a member of Rocky Branch church. He is survived by another brother, Hugh, of Marshall, Iowa and a sister, Mrs. Ollie Flowers, Bado Route, Houston.
Funeral .services were held Monday afternoon in Union Baptist Church, with the Rev. Payton Smyer officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
--Houston Herald 7/3/58 p.1
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