CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS APRIL 5, 1928
BISHOP RITES SATURDAY
FUNERAL OF WORLD WAR VETERAN AT ULMER-DRAKE HOME
Members of Carthage Legion Post Will Serve as Pallbearers
Funeral services for Ernest Bishop, world war veteran who was found dead in bed early yesterday morning in his room in Joplin, will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Ulmer-Drake funeral home. Burial will be in Fasken Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be members of the Edwin W. Wiggins Post, American Legion, of which Mr. Bishop was a member.
Gaseous asphyxiation, self administered with suicidal intent, was the verdict returned by a coroner's jury at an inquest held last night at the Hurlbut chapel in Joplin.
According to the testimony at the inquest, the body was found by Miss Bessie Garrett, who was a roomer at the house where Mr. Bishop lived. She said the body was in bed face down, a typewriter cover over his head, and a rubber tube connected to a gas jet extending under the cover.
The gas was turned on when she went in the room and she quickly pulled the tubing from under the typewriter cover and turned off the gas. A pulmotor was summoned form the central fire station but was not used, as the foremen who answered the call said Bishop had been dead several hours.
Other occupants of the house testified that Mr. Bishop had been despondent on account of ill health. He was wounded several times, gassed and shell shocked in the late war.
He was 42 years old and served in a New Mexico company during the Mexican border trouble in 1916 prior to enlistment for service in the world war. After enlistment for service in the great war he was sent to Camp Kearney, California and became a member of Third Division. He served overseas in the Seventh and Ninth machine gun battalions, and also in the intelligence department.
He participated in the defense of the Marne in 1918 and other battles. He won the Croix de Guerre of France, with the palm leaf for extra valor, and other medals and awards. While in France he was promoted from the rank as private to that of first lieutenant.
Mr. Bishop, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bishop residing northeast of Carthage, had been at the head of a civil service examination correspondence school in Joplin since his return from California. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters; Miss Bessie Bishop who resided with her parents, and who served as a nurse in the world war, and Mrs. T. B. Melvin of Littleton, Colorado and one brother; Frank Bishop of Clyde, Ohio
BISHOP RITES SATURDAY
FUNERAL OF WORLD WAR VETERAN AT ULMER-DRAKE HOME
Members of Carthage Legion Post Will Serve as Pallbearers
Funeral services for Ernest Bishop, world war veteran who was found dead in bed early yesterday morning in his room in Joplin, will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Ulmer-Drake funeral home. Burial will be in Fasken Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be members of the Edwin W. Wiggins Post, American Legion, of which Mr. Bishop was a member.
Gaseous asphyxiation, self administered with suicidal intent, was the verdict returned by a coroner's jury at an inquest held last night at the Hurlbut chapel in Joplin.
According to the testimony at the inquest, the body was found by Miss Bessie Garrett, who was a roomer at the house where Mr. Bishop lived. She said the body was in bed face down, a typewriter cover over his head, and a rubber tube connected to a gas jet extending under the cover.
The gas was turned on when she went in the room and she quickly pulled the tubing from under the typewriter cover and turned off the gas. A pulmotor was summoned form the central fire station but was not used, as the foremen who answered the call said Bishop had been dead several hours.
Other occupants of the house testified that Mr. Bishop had been despondent on account of ill health. He was wounded several times, gassed and shell shocked in the late war.
He was 42 years old and served in a New Mexico company during the Mexican border trouble in 1916 prior to enlistment for service in the world war. After enlistment for service in the great war he was sent to Camp Kearney, California and became a member of Third Division. He served overseas in the Seventh and Ninth machine gun battalions, and also in the intelligence department.
He participated in the defense of the Marne in 1918 and other battles. He won the Croix de Guerre of France, with the palm leaf for extra valor, and other medals and awards. While in France he was promoted from the rank as private to that of first lieutenant.
Mr. Bishop, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bishop residing northeast of Carthage, had been at the head of a civil service examination correspondence school in Joplin since his return from California. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters; Miss Bessie Bishop who resided with her parents, and who served as a nurse in the world war, and Mrs. T. B. Melvin of Littleton, Colorado and one brother; Frank Bishop of Clyde, Ohio
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS APRIL 5, 1928
BISHOP RITES SATURDAY
FUNERAL OF WORLD WAR VETERAN AT ULMER-DRAKE HOME
Members of Carthage Legion Post Will Serve as Pallbearers
Funeral services for Ernest Bishop, world war veteran who was found dead in bed early yesterday morning in his room in Joplin, will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Ulmer-Drake funeral home. Burial will be in Fasken Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be members of the Edwin W. Wiggins Post, American Legion, of which Mr. Bishop was a member.
Gaseous asphyxiation, self administered with suicidal intent, was the verdict returned by a coroner's jury at an inquest held last night at the Hurlbut chapel in Joplin.
According to the testimony at the inquest, the body was found by Miss Bessie Garrett, who was a roomer at the house where Mr. Bishop lived. She said the body was in bed face down, a typewriter cover over his head, and a rubber tube connected to a gas jet extending under the cover.
The gas was turned on when she went in the room and she quickly pulled the tubing from under the typewriter cover and turned off the gas. A pulmotor was summoned form the central fire station but was not used, as the foremen who answered the call said Bishop had been dead several hours.
Other occupants of the house testified that Mr. Bishop had been despondent on account of ill health. He was wounded several times, gassed and shell shocked in the late war.
He was 42 years old and served in a New Mexico company during the Mexican border trouble in 1916 prior to enlistment for service in the world war. After enlistment for service in the great war he was sent to Camp Kearney, California and became a member of Third Division. He served overseas in the Seventh and Ninth machine gun battalions, and also in the intelligence department.
He participated in the defense of the Marne in 1918 and other battles. He won the Croix de Guerre of France, with the palm leaf for extra valor, and other medals and awards. While in France he was promoted from the rank as private to that of first lieutenant.
Mr. Bishop, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bishop residing northeast of Carthage, had been at the head of a civil service examination correspondence school in Joplin since his return from California. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters; Miss Bessie Bishop who resided with her parents, and who served as a nurse in the world war, and Mrs. T. B. Melvin of Littleton, Colorado and one brother; Frank Bishop of Clyde, Ohio
BISHOP RITES SATURDAY
FUNERAL OF WORLD WAR VETERAN AT ULMER-DRAKE HOME
Members of Carthage Legion Post Will Serve as Pallbearers
Funeral services for Ernest Bishop, world war veteran who was found dead in bed early yesterday morning in his room in Joplin, will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Ulmer-Drake funeral home. Burial will be in Fasken Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be members of the Edwin W. Wiggins Post, American Legion, of which Mr. Bishop was a member.
Gaseous asphyxiation, self administered with suicidal intent, was the verdict returned by a coroner's jury at an inquest held last night at the Hurlbut chapel in Joplin.
According to the testimony at the inquest, the body was found by Miss Bessie Garrett, who was a roomer at the house where Mr. Bishop lived. She said the body was in bed face down, a typewriter cover over his head, and a rubber tube connected to a gas jet extending under the cover.
The gas was turned on when she went in the room and she quickly pulled the tubing from under the typewriter cover and turned off the gas. A pulmotor was summoned form the central fire station but was not used, as the foremen who answered the call said Bishop had been dead several hours.
Other occupants of the house testified that Mr. Bishop had been despondent on account of ill health. He was wounded several times, gassed and shell shocked in the late war.
He was 42 years old and served in a New Mexico company during the Mexican border trouble in 1916 prior to enlistment for service in the world war. After enlistment for service in the great war he was sent to Camp Kearney, California and became a member of Third Division. He served overseas in the Seventh and Ninth machine gun battalions, and also in the intelligence department.
He participated in the defense of the Marne in 1918 and other battles. He won the Croix de Guerre of France, with the palm leaf for extra valor, and other medals and awards. While in France he was promoted from the rank as private to that of first lieutenant.
Mr. Bishop, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bishop residing northeast of Carthage, had been at the head of a civil service examination correspondence school in Joplin since his return from California. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters; Miss Bessie Bishop who resided with her parents, and who served as a nurse in the world war, and Mrs. T. B. Melvin of Littleton, Colorado and one brother; Frank Bishop of Clyde, Ohio
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