Rev. James M. Bishop and Eliza Over

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Husband Rev. James M. Bishop ¹

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           Born: 9 Aug 1821 - Littlestown, Adams Co, PA 1
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         Father: Philip Bishop (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Catherine Senseny (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 26 Nov 1846 2

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Wife Eliza Over ²

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           Born: 18 Dec 1824 2
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         Father: Peter Over (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Catherina Grove (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Emma C. Bishop ³

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         Spouse: John Plough (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 13 Feb 1868 4

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2 F Mary V. Bishop ⁵

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         Spouse: George Bollinger (1852-      ) 6
           Marr: 5 Sep 1876 6

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3 M Alvin O. Bishop ²

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4 F Edith M. Bishop ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] Smiley (      -      ) 2

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5 F Laura E. Bishop ²

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           Born: Abt 1861
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           Died: 21 Sep 1884 2
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         Spouse: [Unk] Oyler (      -      ) 2

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6 U Alcesta B. Bishop ²

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. James M. Bishop

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At the age of twenty-three, in 1844, he entered the ministry and traveled for thirty years, and for nine years was an elder traveling through the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania.

He received his early education in Littlestown Academy, and at an early age embraced religion. In early life he was engaged in merchandising, and while so employed would occasionally exhort and preach, until ex-Bishop Russel prevailed upon him to enter the work more fully. In 1845 he was sent by the annual conference to Perry County as a missionary, and succeeded so well that the next conference recognized his charge as a circuit. In 1846 he was transferred to the Chambersburg Circuit, and for the next two years labored in the district, in which he is now so well known and loved. Each year 100 persons were converted and many received into the fellowship of the church. In 1847 he was assigned, in addition to the Chambersburg Circuit, to the Rocky Spring charge. At that time he decided to procure money for missionary purposes, and adopted a novel plan. He took a pig, called "the missionary pig," and persuaded others to do likewise, and in the fall of the year the pigs were sold, and the money, $30, sent to the board. His plan was followed by many other ministers. For a short period he devoted his time to his farms, and was then stationed two years in the Greencastle Circuit. At the following conference he was elected presiding elder and placed in the Chambersburg District, which included the charges in Franklin and Fulton Counties and the southwestern part of Cumberland County. To this position he was re-elected for three years, and then traveled the Orrstown and Rocky Spring charges. Afterward he was again elected presiding elder and served five years, traveling the Greencastle and Mowersville work and the Shippensburg station. In 1877 Rev. Mr. Bishop served a new congregation in Chambersburg four years with good results. He was always held in high esteem by his church; twice he represented the annual conference in the general conference: once in Lebanon in 1869, and again in Dayton, Ohio, in 1873. In 1854 he was elected treasurer of the Branch Home, Frontier and Foreign Mission Society in his district.
By thrift and foresight he managed to accumulate property making him independent of a fixed salary. He later led a quiet life at Pleasant Retreat parsonage, and occasionally conducted services at the quarterly meetings and preached for some of his brother ministers. His popularity is attested to by the fact that large audiences attended on these occasions.
Politically Mr. Bishop was identified with the American and Prohibition parties.

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 764.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 765.

3 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 765, 787.

4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 787.

5 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 765, 767.

6 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 767.