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Merle Leonard Bishop

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Merle Leonard Bishop

Birth
Kansas, USA
Death
6 Nov 1918 (aged 19)
Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, USA
Burial
Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, USA
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NOTE: Birth year based on date of death and age at death, calculates to 16 September 1899.
In 1900 census he was 8 months old, so born 1899.
His WWI card says born 15 September 1899.
His death certificate says born 15 September 1897, NOT the 12th.
Compare the 5 with the number 2s on the certificate. They're not written the same.

Died in the Burlington hospital of meningitis following gunshot wound of spinal cord.
He was "out hunting" duck.
NOTE: Birth year based on date of death and age at death, calculates to 16 September 1899.
In 1900 census he was 8 months old, so born 1899.
His WWI card says born 15 September 1899.
His death certificate says born 15 September 1897, NOT the 12th.
Compare the 5 with the number 2s on the certificate. They're not written the same.

Died in the Burlington hospital of meningitis following gunshot wound of spinal cord.
He was "out hunting" duck.

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BELOVED BROTHER
MERLE LEONARD BISHOP
1899 - 1918

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