***
Asa Bishop married his first wife Mary Susanna Stevens about 1814; she died before 1850. At age 60, on May 23, 1850, Asa married his second wife Elizabeth Stephens. Three of Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop children married children of Eli and Sarah Brown Cox. Asa's son, Everett Bishop (1827-1841) died at age 14 from a rattlesnake bite when he was gathering corn. (PJSW, 2012)
***
[JoAnn Bishop to Mrs. Owens, then on to Ruth Godwin Gadbury, 1997-01-09]
My records show that Asa's first wife was Mary Stevens who was two months pregnant when Asa married her. Her husband was killed in a duel. Asa's second wife was Elizabeth Stevens. Does this agree with your information?
***
[Sketch of "Asa and Mary Bishop" by Laura Bishop Worrell in Hardeman County history book, copy from page 75 in files of Ruth Godwin Gadbury]
Asa Bishop (4 June 1790-30 August 1864) is buried in Bishop Cemetery near Lacy, Tennessee. He married first, Mary Stevens and second Elizabeth Stevens 23 May 1850 in Hardeman County. Recollections of older members of the family are that Asa immigrated to Hardeman County from Virginia. It is believed that he came to Virginia from England. Asa and Mary had three sons, Alvin, Ernest, and David, and one daughter, Mary, who married Bryant Cox. Alvin moved to Texas and his family grew up there. Alvin died in Texas. David, the remaining son, was the patriarch of the Bishops of Hardeman county.
Alvin Bishop was born 20 September 1821 near Lacy, died 24 September 1888. He married Mary Jane Cox (13 September 1826-8 January 1880) on 21 October 1841. There were eight children, all born in Hardeman County.
Amanda Susan Bishop (24 March 1845) married James Sanders Simpson 4 December 1863.
Thomas J. Bishop (26 July 1853) married Mary Ann Ammons 26 November 1873.
Mary Elizabeth Bishop (28 August 1856) married Duke Allen Jackson 1 October 1873 in Hardeman County.
Tennessee Bishop (14 August 1858) married James D. Collier 7 September 1875.
M. J. (Lyda) Bishop (29 April 1961) married James D. Carr, Jr. 10 September 1884 in Comanche, Texas.
Albert Sydney Bishop (11 December 1863).
Kitty Bell Bishop 11 March 1866) married Pleasant Gideon Hill 16 August 1883 in Comanche, Texas.
Edna P. Bishop (15 March 1868) married James Townsend.
***
According to Ruth Godwin Gadbury's GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, page 199:
Asa was born... in Virginia soon after George Washington was inaugurated President of the new United States. Asa married Susan Stevens by 1814 and had migrated to Morth Carolina by the 1820's, then was in Hardeman County, Tennessee, by 1830.
Asa was a farmer and landowner in Hardeman Co. At one very interesting farm sale in 1845, he bought three different lots of hogs, averaging about $1 apiece.
He had 2 slaves in the 1830 tax list.
He married Elizabeth Stephens 23 May 1850, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Elizabeth was a widow with four children at home. Asa was 60.
Listed near Asa in the 1830 census of Hardeman County, Tennessee, was Fanney Bishop, age 60-70, presumed to be the mother of Asa.
During the Civil Was when his sons were away in service of the Confederacy, Asa passed away and was buried in the family cemetery. His daughters-in-law, Mary Jane and Louisa Bishop, with the help of some faithful slaves and neighbor women dug the grave and buried him not far from the Bishop house. Before 1980, the cemetery is now abandoned among the pines on the old Bishop place some 10-12 miles out of Middleton, Hardeman Co., Tenn. near Porters Creek Baptist Church.
While searching for the children of Asa Bishop, we found marriage records for three Bishop girls who appear to be the first three females on the 1830 census for Asa. One girl it named Susan the same as Asa's wife and the other two married children of Eli Cox as did Alvin Bishop. The Bishop and Cox land joined in Hardeman County. One son on the census in unaccounted for, may have died young.
***
Asa's brother Moses wrote him on 6 September, 1822, from Franklin, Williamson Co. TN, encouraging him to move there. His greeting was "Dear Mother, Brother, and Sister." This indicates that his father is deceased, his mother resides with Asa or nearby, and that he had sister. ...Asa was a weaver. (1995, Ruth Godwin Gadbury, GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, Update 1980-1996)
***
Address:
Asa Bishop
Williamson County
West Tennessee
January the 10th, 1826
Dear Son and Daughter,
We received your letter dated November the 9th which informed us that you had all arrived safe at Mr. Bateman's which is great satisfaction to us. We can inform you that we are all in tolerable good health at this time, thank God for the same, and hope these lines will find you all in full possession of the same blessing.
We heard from you since your letter was started by Milly Holmes who informs us that Susanna and Mrs. [Fanney] Bishop is very dissatisfied and wants to come back. If you have any notion of coming back, I want you to let me know as quick as possible by writing to me and I will try to make some preparations for you.
We have received another letter from your brother Jacob which informs us that he is well and we look for him every day. Your sister Polly has got another daughter which she was delivered of the 2nd of this instant [month?] and both of them is doing very well.
Write as quick as possible, and give us a full description of that county and how you like it and whether you are satisfied or not. We have nothing more to write worth your attention but...
Affectionate father,
Edward Stevens
---
1980 - Notes of Ruth Godwin Gadbury: This letter was written by Edward Stevens, 1826, probably father of Asa Bishop's second wife, Elizabeth Stevens / Stephens. He is considering moving from west Tennessee to Hardeman County, Tennessee. I think the mother was Susanna Rivers. They married in 1791.
...Susanna Stevens and Asa Bishop moved from Johnston Co, NC in the fall of 1825, first going to the home of Enoch Bateman in Williamson Co., TN. They took Mrs. Bishop, mother of Asa, and children Edna, Alvin, Susan, Everett, and Sally...
This copy of a letter from Edward Stevens and wife to Asa and Susan was furnished by Edith Johns, descendant of David Bishop.
---
2006 - Comments of Peggy Smith Wolfe: This letter is written to Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop, both aged 36, the grandparents of Kittie Bell Bishop Hill, who is my great-grandmother. As stated, Jacob and Polly are siblings to Susanna Stevens Bishop. ...and Polly has at least two daughters. Jacob would have been aged about 29, and Polly about 31.
Edward Stevens was father-in-law to Asa Bishop, but he was father to the first wife, Susanna Stevens, not the second wife, Elizabeth Stephens, whom Asa married in 1850. Edward's parents were Jacob and Belinda Jernigan Stevens, born 1740 and 1743 respectively. This Stevens line has been traced back through Massachusetts to Gloucestershire, England. [Peggy Smith Wolfe, 2006, THE GODWIN ARCHIVES, Vol. II: KITTIE'S CORRESPONDENCE And Other Bishop Letters.]
***
Children of Asa & Susanna Stevens Bishop:
Edna 'Edney' Bishop m. Cader Cox
Susan T. Bishop m. W. D. Cooper
Alvin E. Bishop m. Mary Jane Cox
Sarah and/or Sally Bishop m. Alfred Cox
son Bishop
Everett Bishop
David Bishop
Asa Bishop married his first wife Mary Susanna Stevens about 1814; she died before 1850. At age 60, on May 23, 1850, Asa married his second wife Elizabeth Stephens. Three of Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop children married children of Eli and Sarah Brown Cox. Asa's son, Everett Bishop (1827-1841) died at age 14 from a rattlesnake bite when he was gathering corn. (PJSW, 2012)
***
[JoAnn Bishop to Mrs. Owens, then on to Ruth Godwin Gadbury, 1997-01-09]
My records show that Asa's first wife was Mary Stevens who was two months pregnant when Asa married her. Her husband was killed in a duel. Asa's second wife was Elizabeth Stevens. Does this agree with your information?
***
[Sketch of "Asa and Mary Bishop" by Laura Bishop Worrell in Hardeman County history book, copy from page 75 in files of Ruth Godwin Gadbury]
Asa Bishop (4 June 1790-30 August 1864) is buried in Bishop Cemetery near Lacy, Tennessee. He married first, Mary Stevens and second Elizabeth Stevens 23 May 1850 in Hardeman County. Recollections of older members of the family are that Asa immigrated to Hardeman County from Virginia. It is believed that he came to Virginia from England. Asa and Mary had three sons, Alvin, Ernest, and David, and one daughter, Mary, who married Bryant Cox. Alvin moved to Texas and his family grew up there. Alvin died in Texas. David, the remaining son, was the patriarch of the Bishops of Hardeman county.
Alvin Bishop was born 20 September 1821 near Lacy, died 24 September 1888. He married Mary Jane Cox (13 September 1826-8 January 1880) on 21 October 1841. There were eight children, all born in Hardeman County.
Amanda Susan Bishop (24 March 1845) married James Sanders Simpson 4 December 1863.
Thomas J. Bishop (26 July 1853) married Mary Ann Ammons 26 November 1873.
Mary Elizabeth Bishop (28 August 1856) married Duke Allen Jackson 1 October 1873 in Hardeman County.
Tennessee Bishop (14 August 1858) married James D. Collier 7 September 1875.
M. J. (Lyda) Bishop (29 April 1961) married James D. Carr, Jr. 10 September 1884 in Comanche, Texas.
Albert Sydney Bishop (11 December 1863).
Kitty Bell Bishop 11 March 1866) married Pleasant Gideon Hill 16 August 1883 in Comanche, Texas.
Edna P. Bishop (15 March 1868) married James Townsend.
***
According to Ruth Godwin Gadbury's GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, page 199:
Asa was born... in Virginia soon after George Washington was inaugurated President of the new United States. Asa married Susan Stevens by 1814 and had migrated to Morth Carolina by the 1820's, then was in Hardeman County, Tennessee, by 1830.
Asa was a farmer and landowner in Hardeman Co. At one very interesting farm sale in 1845, he bought three different lots of hogs, averaging about $1 apiece.
He had 2 slaves in the 1830 tax list.
He married Elizabeth Stephens 23 May 1850, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Elizabeth was a widow with four children at home. Asa was 60.
Listed near Asa in the 1830 census of Hardeman County, Tennessee, was Fanney Bishop, age 60-70, presumed to be the mother of Asa.
During the Civil Was when his sons were away in service of the Confederacy, Asa passed away and was buried in the family cemetery. His daughters-in-law, Mary Jane and Louisa Bishop, with the help of some faithful slaves and neighbor women dug the grave and buried him not far from the Bishop house. Before 1980, the cemetery is now abandoned among the pines on the old Bishop place some 10-12 miles out of Middleton, Hardeman Co., Tenn. near Porters Creek Baptist Church.
While searching for the children of Asa Bishop, we found marriage records for three Bishop girls who appear to be the first three females on the 1830 census for Asa. One girl it named Susan the same as Asa's wife and the other two married children of Eli Cox as did Alvin Bishop. The Bishop and Cox land joined in Hardeman County. One son on the census in unaccounted for, may have died young.
***
Asa's brother Moses wrote him on 6 September, 1822, from Franklin, Williamson Co. TN, encouraging him to move there. His greeting was "Dear Mother, Brother, and Sister." This indicates that his father is deceased, his mother resides with Asa or nearby, and that he had sister. ...Asa was a weaver. (1995, Ruth Godwin Gadbury, GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, Update 1980-1996)
***
Address:
Asa Bishop
Williamson County
West Tennessee
January the 10th, 1826
Dear Son and Daughter,
We received your letter dated November the 9th which informed us that you had all arrived safe at Mr. Bateman's which is great satisfaction to us. We can inform you that we are all in tolerable good health at this time, thank God for the same, and hope these lines will find you all in full possession of the same blessing.
We heard from you since your letter was started by Milly Holmes who informs us that Susanna and Mrs. [Fanney] Bishop is very dissatisfied and wants to come back. If you have any notion of coming back, I want you to let me know as quick as possible by writing to me and I will try to make some preparations for you.
We have received another letter from your brother Jacob which informs us that he is well and we look for him every day. Your sister Polly has got another daughter which she was delivered of the 2nd of this instant [month?] and both of them is doing very well.
Write as quick as possible, and give us a full description of that county and how you like it and whether you are satisfied or not. We have nothing more to write worth your attention but...
Affectionate father,
Edward Stevens
---
1980 - Notes of Ruth Godwin Gadbury: This letter was written by Edward Stevens, 1826, probably father of Asa Bishop's second wife, Elizabeth Stevens / Stephens. He is considering moving from west Tennessee to Hardeman County, Tennessee. I think the mother was Susanna Rivers. They married in 1791.
...Susanna Stevens and Asa Bishop moved from Johnston Co, NC in the fall of 1825, first going to the home of Enoch Bateman in Williamson Co., TN. They took Mrs. Bishop, mother of Asa, and children Edna, Alvin, Susan, Everett, and Sally...
This copy of a letter from Edward Stevens and wife to Asa and Susan was furnished by Edith Johns, descendant of David Bishop.
---
2006 - Comments of Peggy Smith Wolfe: This letter is written to Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop, both aged 36, the grandparents of Kittie Bell Bishop Hill, who is my great-grandmother. As stated, Jacob and Polly are siblings to Susanna Stevens Bishop. ...and Polly has at least two daughters. Jacob would have been aged about 29, and Polly about 31.
Edward Stevens was father-in-law to Asa Bishop, but he was father to the first wife, Susanna Stevens, not the second wife, Elizabeth Stephens, whom Asa married in 1850. Edward's parents were Jacob and Belinda Jernigan Stevens, born 1740 and 1743 respectively. This Stevens line has been traced back through Massachusetts to Gloucestershire, England. [Peggy Smith Wolfe, 2006, THE GODWIN ARCHIVES, Vol. II: KITTIE'S CORRESPONDENCE And Other Bishop Letters.]
***
Children of Asa & Susanna Stevens Bishop:
Edna 'Edney' Bishop m. Cader Cox
Susan T. Bishop m. W. D. Cooper
Alvin E. Bishop m. Mary Jane Cox
Sarah and/or Sally Bishop m. Alfred Cox
son Bishop
Everett Bishop
David Bishop
***
Asa Bishop married his first wife Mary Susanna Stevens about 1814; she died before 1850. At age 60, on May 23, 1850, Asa married his second wife Elizabeth Stephens. Three of Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop children married children of Eli and Sarah Brown Cox. Asa's son, Everett Bishop (1827-1841) died at age 14 from a rattlesnake bite when he was gathering corn. (PJSW, 2012)
***
[JoAnn Bishop to Mrs. Owens, then on to Ruth Godwin Gadbury, 1997-01-09]
My records show that Asa's first wife was Mary Stevens who was two months pregnant when Asa married her. Her husband was killed in a duel. Asa's second wife was Elizabeth Stevens. Does this agree with your information?
***
[Sketch of "Asa and Mary Bishop" by Laura Bishop Worrell in Hardeman County history book, copy from page 75 in files of Ruth Godwin Gadbury]
Asa Bishop (4 June 1790-30 August 1864) is buried in Bishop Cemetery near Lacy, Tennessee. He married first, Mary Stevens and second Elizabeth Stevens 23 May 1850 in Hardeman County. Recollections of older members of the family are that Asa immigrated to Hardeman County from Virginia. It is believed that he came to Virginia from England. Asa and Mary had three sons, Alvin, Ernest, and David, and one daughter, Mary, who married Bryant Cox. Alvin moved to Texas and his family grew up there. Alvin died in Texas. David, the remaining son, was the patriarch of the Bishops of Hardeman county.
Alvin Bishop was born 20 September 1821 near Lacy, died 24 September 1888. He married Mary Jane Cox (13 September 1826-8 January 1880) on 21 October 1841. There were eight children, all born in Hardeman County.
Amanda Susan Bishop (24 March 1845) married James Sanders Simpson 4 December 1863.
Thomas J. Bishop (26 July 1853) married Mary Ann Ammons 26 November 1873.
Mary Elizabeth Bishop (28 August 1856) married Duke Allen Jackson 1 October 1873 in Hardeman County.
Tennessee Bishop (14 August 1858) married James D. Collier 7 September 1875.
M. J. (Lyda) Bishop (29 April 1961) married James D. Carr, Jr. 10 September 1884 in Comanche, Texas.
Albert Sydney Bishop (11 December 1863).
Kitty Bell Bishop 11 March 1866) married Pleasant Gideon Hill 16 August 1883 in Comanche, Texas.
Edna P. Bishop (15 March 1868) married James Townsend.
***
According to Ruth Godwin Gadbury's GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, page 199:
Asa was born... in Virginia soon after George Washington was inaugurated President of the new United States. Asa married Susan Stevens by 1814 and had migrated to Morth Carolina by the 1820's, then was in Hardeman County, Tennessee, by 1830.
Asa was a farmer and landowner in Hardeman Co. At one very interesting farm sale in 1845, he bought three different lots of hogs, averaging about $1 apiece.
He had 2 slaves in the 1830 tax list.
He married Elizabeth Stephens 23 May 1850, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Elizabeth was a widow with four children at home. Asa was 60.
Listed near Asa in the 1830 census of Hardeman County, Tennessee, was Fanney Bishop, age 60-70, presumed to be the mother of Asa.
During the Civil Was when his sons were away in service of the Confederacy, Asa passed away and was buried in the family cemetery. His daughters-in-law, Mary Jane and Louisa Bishop, with the help of some faithful slaves and neighbor women dug the grave and buried him not far from the Bishop house. Before 1980, the cemetery is now abandoned among the pines on the old Bishop place some 10-12 miles out of Middleton, Hardeman Co., Tenn. near Porters Creek Baptist Church.
While searching for the children of Asa Bishop, we found marriage records for three Bishop girls who appear to be the first three females on the 1830 census for Asa. One girl it named Susan the same as Asa's wife and the other two married children of Eli Cox as did Alvin Bishop. The Bishop and Cox land joined in Hardeman County. One son on the census in unaccounted for, may have died young.
***
Asa's brother Moses wrote him on 6 September, 1822, from Franklin, Williamson Co. TN, encouraging him to move there. His greeting was "Dear Mother, Brother, and Sister." This indicates that his father is deceased, his mother resides with Asa or nearby, and that he had sister. ...Asa was a weaver. (1995, Ruth Godwin Gadbury, GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, Update 1980-1996)
***
Address:
Asa Bishop
Williamson County
West Tennessee
January the 10th, 1826
Dear Son and Daughter,
We received your letter dated November the 9th which informed us that you had all arrived safe at Mr. Bateman's which is great satisfaction to us. We can inform you that we are all in tolerable good health at this time, thank God for the same, and hope these lines will find you all in full possession of the same blessing.
We heard from you since your letter was started by Milly Holmes who informs us that Susanna and Mrs. [Fanney] Bishop is very dissatisfied and wants to come back. If you have any notion of coming back, I want you to let me know as quick as possible by writing to me and I will try to make some preparations for you.
We have received another letter from your brother Jacob which informs us that he is well and we look for him every day. Your sister Polly has got another daughter which she was delivered of the 2nd of this instant [month?] and both of them is doing very well.
Write as quick as possible, and give us a full description of that county and how you like it and whether you are satisfied or not. We have nothing more to write worth your attention but...
Affectionate father,
Edward Stevens
---
1980 - Notes of Ruth Godwin Gadbury: This letter was written by Edward Stevens, 1826, probably father of Asa Bishop's second wife, Elizabeth Stevens / Stephens. He is considering moving from west Tennessee to Hardeman County, Tennessee. I think the mother was Susanna Rivers. They married in 1791.
...Susanna Stevens and Asa Bishop moved from Johnston Co, NC in the fall of 1825, first going to the home of Enoch Bateman in Williamson Co., TN. They took Mrs. Bishop, mother of Asa, and children Edna, Alvin, Susan, Everett, and Sally...
This copy of a letter from Edward Stevens and wife to Asa and Susan was furnished by Edith Johns, descendant of David Bishop.
---
2006 - Comments of Peggy Smith Wolfe: This letter is written to Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop, both aged 36, the grandparents of Kittie Bell Bishop Hill, who is my great-grandmother. As stated, Jacob and Polly are siblings to Susanna Stevens Bishop. ...and Polly has at least two daughters. Jacob would have been aged about 29, and Polly about 31.
Edward Stevens was father-in-law to Asa Bishop, but he was father to the first wife, Susanna Stevens, not the second wife, Elizabeth Stephens, whom Asa married in 1850. Edward's parents were Jacob and Belinda Jernigan Stevens, born 1740 and 1743 respectively. This Stevens line has been traced back through Massachusetts to Gloucestershire, England. [Peggy Smith Wolfe, 2006, THE GODWIN ARCHIVES, Vol. II: KITTIE'S CORRESPONDENCE And Other Bishop Letters.]
***
Children of Asa & Susanna Stevens Bishop:
Edna 'Edney' Bishop m. Cader Cox
Susan T. Bishop m. W. D. Cooper
Alvin E. Bishop m. Mary Jane Cox
Sarah and/or Sally Bishop m. Alfred Cox
son Bishop
Everett Bishop
David Bishop
Asa Bishop married his first wife Mary Susanna Stevens about 1814; she died before 1850. At age 60, on May 23, 1850, Asa married his second wife Elizabeth Stephens. Three of Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop children married children of Eli and Sarah Brown Cox. Asa's son, Everett Bishop (1827-1841) died at age 14 from a rattlesnake bite when he was gathering corn. (PJSW, 2012)
***
[JoAnn Bishop to Mrs. Owens, then on to Ruth Godwin Gadbury, 1997-01-09]
My records show that Asa's first wife was Mary Stevens who was two months pregnant when Asa married her. Her husband was killed in a duel. Asa's second wife was Elizabeth Stevens. Does this agree with your information?
***
[Sketch of "Asa and Mary Bishop" by Laura Bishop Worrell in Hardeman County history book, copy from page 75 in files of Ruth Godwin Gadbury]
Asa Bishop (4 June 1790-30 August 1864) is buried in Bishop Cemetery near Lacy, Tennessee. He married first, Mary Stevens and second Elizabeth Stevens 23 May 1850 in Hardeman County. Recollections of older members of the family are that Asa immigrated to Hardeman County from Virginia. It is believed that he came to Virginia from England. Asa and Mary had three sons, Alvin, Ernest, and David, and one daughter, Mary, who married Bryant Cox. Alvin moved to Texas and his family grew up there. Alvin died in Texas. David, the remaining son, was the patriarch of the Bishops of Hardeman county.
Alvin Bishop was born 20 September 1821 near Lacy, died 24 September 1888. He married Mary Jane Cox (13 September 1826-8 January 1880) on 21 October 1841. There were eight children, all born in Hardeman County.
Amanda Susan Bishop (24 March 1845) married James Sanders Simpson 4 December 1863.
Thomas J. Bishop (26 July 1853) married Mary Ann Ammons 26 November 1873.
Mary Elizabeth Bishop (28 August 1856) married Duke Allen Jackson 1 October 1873 in Hardeman County.
Tennessee Bishop (14 August 1858) married James D. Collier 7 September 1875.
M. J. (Lyda) Bishop (29 April 1961) married James D. Carr, Jr. 10 September 1884 in Comanche, Texas.
Albert Sydney Bishop (11 December 1863).
Kitty Bell Bishop 11 March 1866) married Pleasant Gideon Hill 16 August 1883 in Comanche, Texas.
Edna P. Bishop (15 March 1868) married James Townsend.
***
According to Ruth Godwin Gadbury's GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, page 199:
Asa was born... in Virginia soon after George Washington was inaugurated President of the new United States. Asa married Susan Stevens by 1814 and had migrated to Morth Carolina by the 1820's, then was in Hardeman County, Tennessee, by 1830.
Asa was a farmer and landowner in Hardeman Co. At one very interesting farm sale in 1845, he bought three different lots of hogs, averaging about $1 apiece.
He had 2 slaves in the 1830 tax list.
He married Elizabeth Stephens 23 May 1850, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Elizabeth was a widow with four children at home. Asa was 60.
Listed near Asa in the 1830 census of Hardeman County, Tennessee, was Fanney Bishop, age 60-70, presumed to be the mother of Asa.
During the Civil Was when his sons were away in service of the Confederacy, Asa passed away and was buried in the family cemetery. His daughters-in-law, Mary Jane and Louisa Bishop, with the help of some faithful slaves and neighbor women dug the grave and buried him not far from the Bishop house. Before 1980, the cemetery is now abandoned among the pines on the old Bishop place some 10-12 miles out of Middleton, Hardeman Co., Tenn. near Porters Creek Baptist Church.
While searching for the children of Asa Bishop, we found marriage records for three Bishop girls who appear to be the first three females on the 1830 census for Asa. One girl it named Susan the same as Asa's wife and the other two married children of Eli Cox as did Alvin Bishop. The Bishop and Cox land joined in Hardeman County. One son on the census in unaccounted for, may have died young.
***
Asa's brother Moses wrote him on 6 September, 1822, from Franklin, Williamson Co. TN, encouraging him to move there. His greeting was "Dear Mother, Brother, and Sister." This indicates that his father is deceased, his mother resides with Asa or nearby, and that he had sister. ...Asa was a weaver. (1995, Ruth Godwin Gadbury, GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, Update 1980-1996)
***
Address:
Asa Bishop
Williamson County
West Tennessee
January the 10th, 1826
Dear Son and Daughter,
We received your letter dated November the 9th which informed us that you had all arrived safe at Mr. Bateman's which is great satisfaction to us. We can inform you that we are all in tolerable good health at this time, thank God for the same, and hope these lines will find you all in full possession of the same blessing.
We heard from you since your letter was started by Milly Holmes who informs us that Susanna and Mrs. [Fanney] Bishop is very dissatisfied and wants to come back. If you have any notion of coming back, I want you to let me know as quick as possible by writing to me and I will try to make some preparations for you.
We have received another letter from your brother Jacob which informs us that he is well and we look for him every day. Your sister Polly has got another daughter which she was delivered of the 2nd of this instant [month?] and both of them is doing very well.
Write as quick as possible, and give us a full description of that county and how you like it and whether you are satisfied or not. We have nothing more to write worth your attention but...
Affectionate father,
Edward Stevens
---
1980 - Notes of Ruth Godwin Gadbury: This letter was written by Edward Stevens, 1826, probably father of Asa Bishop's second wife, Elizabeth Stevens / Stephens. He is considering moving from west Tennessee to Hardeman County, Tennessee. I think the mother was Susanna Rivers. They married in 1791.
...Susanna Stevens and Asa Bishop moved from Johnston Co, NC in the fall of 1825, first going to the home of Enoch Bateman in Williamson Co., TN. They took Mrs. Bishop, mother of Asa, and children Edna, Alvin, Susan, Everett, and Sally...
This copy of a letter from Edward Stevens and wife to Asa and Susan was furnished by Edith Johns, descendant of David Bishop.
---
2006 - Comments of Peggy Smith Wolfe: This letter is written to Asa and Susanna Stevens Bishop, both aged 36, the grandparents of Kittie Bell Bishop Hill, who is my great-grandmother. As stated, Jacob and Polly are siblings to Susanna Stevens Bishop. ...and Polly has at least two daughters. Jacob would have been aged about 29, and Polly about 31.
Edward Stevens was father-in-law to Asa Bishop, but he was father to the first wife, Susanna Stevens, not the second wife, Elizabeth Stephens, whom Asa married in 1850. Edward's parents were Jacob and Belinda Jernigan Stevens, born 1740 and 1743 respectively. This Stevens line has been traced back through Massachusetts to Gloucestershire, England. [Peggy Smith Wolfe, 2006, THE GODWIN ARCHIVES, Vol. II: KITTIE'S CORRESPONDENCE And Other Bishop Letters.]
***
Children of Asa & Susanna Stevens Bishop:
Edna 'Edney' Bishop m. Cader Cox
Susan T. Bishop m. W. D. Cooper
Alvin E. Bishop m. Mary Jane Cox
Sarah and/or Sally Bishop m. Alfred Cox
son Bishop
Everett Bishop
David Bishop
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