| Thomas Bishop |
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Thomas Bishop, one of the oldest citizens of Delaware county, died of inflammation of the alimentary canal, on Saturday, July 29, at 5 o'clock in the evening. During the last twenty years of his life he suffered for days and week together, with the pains of rheumatism; and many times also with the agony of retained secretion of the kidneys. To these chronic affections was added his acute and fatal disease, three days before his death. His body was buried the Sabbath after his departure, in Beech Grove Cemetery, and was followed to the grave by a procession of his numerous friends and neighbors in wagons and carriages half a mile in length. Mr Bishop was born October 27, 1801, in Washington county, New York. He emigrated to this county with his wife and two children in June, 1828, and located on the wild land, now beautiful farm, two miles west of Muncie, the Yorktown turnpike. Here he continued to reside until he passed over that mysterious spirit-land, which Human Science can neither know nor ignore; but which is always clearly visible to the glad eye of Christian Faith. He nearly attained the Scriptural age of three score and ten, with forty-three years a resident of Delaware county. --M D |