The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-06

among the best and more illustrious families of the southern states. She had four brothers and four sisters and was the fourth child and is the first who has died. Her early girlhood was spent in the inspiring and refined circles of Greenville, which was the home of Pres ident Johnson and other eminent people, all of whom were intimate friends of her parents Later the family moved to Knoxville, where her education was com pleted, and where in 1885 she was mar red to MT. Bishop and came to Wash ington, living here until 1900. Young as she WAS in years, she took up the work of the home for MT. Bishop and his three children by his previous marriage, one of whom is Capt. Percy P. Bishop of the United States army, and now sta toned here: the others being Mrs. James NJ. Tilley of Ettowa, Tenn, and Mrs. Ed ward Conner, Fountain City, Tenn. She proved the most devoted of mothers to these stepchildren, who will bless her name as long as they shall live for her fidelity to them.
 When Mir Bishop was offered a high place in the customs service they re- moved to New York, which was their home until her death, which occurred the evening of the 25th instant after a severe illness of nearly seven weeks. In 1901 she sustained spinal injuries in a street railway accident in New York which made her much of an invalid the rest of her life and ultimately caused her death.
 Through all these years of suffering she bore herself with resignation, sweetness and courage, which were her main characteristics all her life. The beauty, gentleness, high spirit and in- born kindness which dominated her from her birth and made her the favor ite and the pride of her wide circle of kinspeople and all others who came to know her well sustained her through these years of suffering and in her final illness.
 Instead of repining or growing nor bid she retained her sunny courage and cheerfulness and constantly sought to be strength and comfort to those she loved. Wherever she went she gained friends among the best people and wherever she lived she kept herself in a constant ministry of help to the weak and needy. A peculiarity of her beau tiful nature also was to help young people in getting started in life; young men to get positions where they would be useful; young women who had their own living to make into self-respecting places and means of livelihood and most of all old people who had found the bitterness of loss and i'll fortune in old age.
 When she came to Washington, In 1885. she had already entered on these blessed activities. Her early interest in human things and in pride of country as a Daughter of the Revolution, bearing the heritage of the revered name of Sevier. and Tn helping to look especially after the needy ones among the descendants of the soldiers of the revolution, doubtless added to her own kindness of heart and proved the controlling force of her life. member of Bonny Kate Chapter D. A. R., named for the wife of Gen Sevier, she soon became interested in all the other chapters of the organization and in all the charities in the circle of human sympathy. When she came to Washing ton a bride, she and her husband found among the southern people here hosts of friends, and, being well known to the Tennessee people in public life here in Congress and all the departments, she found her new home peculiarly grateful to her and peculiarly open as a field of work and opportunity, in which to ex- ercise her natural bent and gift in help ing whoever needed help, in so far as her strength and influence could go.