From "Memoirs of a Fool" by T Melvin Bishop pg 24:
"By this time I [T Melvin Bishop] was practically a nervous wreck and my health was being slowly undermined from the mental strain.
I had made six bonds. I was completely 'broke" financially. Our little baby who weighed only three pounds at birth contracted whooping cough the night of the trial. The doctors and nurses had said it would be a miracle if we raised it, but we were very hopeful and had it not bought this dreadful disease would probably, have lived. The little fellow suffered so much before the Lover of little children sent His angel down into this selfish, sin-cursed world and tenderly carried it to a place where the Great Physician forever healed its wasted little form.
I consoled myself with the thought that surely my own sweet mother who left me many years ago, would take it in her arms as the Angel crossed the threshold of the Pearl Gates and care for it. I put its little bottle in its arms as it lay, as if asleep, in its casket."
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MS DC 1938-8924; baby died from whooping cough complicated by a premature birth; she died in Magee General Hospital
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OBIT -- Simpson County News Thursday, May 12, 1938
Bishop Baby, Buried Tuesday
Little Melvina Bishop, five-months old baby of Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, passed away Monday night, following an illness of two weeks.
The baby contracted whooping cough in a servere form, after which other complications set in, which were too great for the frail body to withstand.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from Mims Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in the family cemetery. Rev C. C. Jones, pastor of the Mendenhall Baptist church, conducted the services.
Surviving the infant are the parents, Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, and serveral brothers and sisters.
Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Bishop are the paternal grandparents of the child.
"By this time I [T Melvin Bishop] was practically a nervous wreck and my health was being slowly undermined from the mental strain.
I had made six bonds. I was completely 'broke" financially. Our little baby who weighed only three pounds at birth contracted whooping cough the night of the trial. The doctors and nurses had said it would be a miracle if we raised it, but we were very hopeful and had it not bought this dreadful disease would probably, have lived. The little fellow suffered so much before the Lover of little children sent His angel down into this selfish, sin-cursed world and tenderly carried it to a place where the Great Physician forever healed its wasted little form.
I consoled myself with the thought that surely my own sweet mother who left me many years ago, would take it in her arms as the Angel crossed the threshold of the Pearl Gates and care for it. I put its little bottle in its arms as it lay, as if asleep, in its casket."
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MS DC 1938-8924; baby died from whooping cough complicated by a premature birth; she died in Magee General Hospital
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OBIT -- Simpson County News Thursday, May 12, 1938
Bishop Baby, Buried Tuesday
Little Melvina Bishop, five-months old baby of Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, passed away Monday night, following an illness of two weeks.
The baby contracted whooping cough in a servere form, after which other complications set in, which were too great for the frail body to withstand.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from Mims Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in the family cemetery. Rev C. C. Jones, pastor of the Mendenhall Baptist church, conducted the services.
Surviving the infant are the parents, Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, and serveral brothers and sisters.
Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Bishop are the paternal grandparents of the child.
From "Memoirs of a Fool" by T Melvin Bishop pg 24:
"By this time I [T Melvin Bishop] was practically a nervous wreck and my health was being slowly undermined from the mental strain.
I had made six bonds. I was completely 'broke" financially. Our little baby who weighed only three pounds at birth contracted whooping cough the night of the trial. The doctors and nurses had said it would be a miracle if we raised it, but we were very hopeful and had it not bought this dreadful disease would probably, have lived. The little fellow suffered so much before the Lover of little children sent His angel down into this selfish, sin-cursed world and tenderly carried it to a place where the Great Physician forever healed its wasted little form.
I consoled myself with the thought that surely my own sweet mother who left me many years ago, would take it in her arms as the Angel crossed the threshold of the Pearl Gates and care for it. I put its little bottle in its arms as it lay, as if asleep, in its casket."
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MS DC 1938-8924; baby died from whooping cough complicated by a premature birth; she died in Magee General Hospital
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OBIT -- Simpson County News Thursday, May 12, 1938
Bishop Baby, Buried Tuesday
Little Melvina Bishop, five-months old baby of Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, passed away Monday night, following an illness of two weeks.
The baby contracted whooping cough in a servere form, after which other complications set in, which were too great for the frail body to withstand.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from Mims Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in the family cemetery. Rev C. C. Jones, pastor of the Mendenhall Baptist church, conducted the services.
Surviving the infant are the parents, Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, and serveral brothers and sisters.
Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Bishop are the paternal grandparents of the child.
"By this time I [T Melvin Bishop] was practically a nervous wreck and my health was being slowly undermined from the mental strain.
I had made six bonds. I was completely 'broke" financially. Our little baby who weighed only three pounds at birth contracted whooping cough the night of the trial. The doctors and nurses had said it would be a miracle if we raised it, but we were very hopeful and had it not bought this dreadful disease would probably, have lived. The little fellow suffered so much before the Lover of little children sent His angel down into this selfish, sin-cursed world and tenderly carried it to a place where the Great Physician forever healed its wasted little form.
I consoled myself with the thought that surely my own sweet mother who left me many years ago, would take it in her arms as the Angel crossed the threshold of the Pearl Gates and care for it. I put its little bottle in its arms as it lay, as if asleep, in its casket."
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MS DC 1938-8924; baby died from whooping cough complicated by a premature birth; she died in Magee General Hospital
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OBIT -- Simpson County News Thursday, May 12, 1938
Bishop Baby, Buried Tuesday
Little Melvina Bishop, five-months old baby of Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, passed away Monday night, following an illness of two weeks.
The baby contracted whooping cough in a servere form, after which other complications set in, which were too great for the frail body to withstand.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from Mims Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in the family cemetery. Rev C. C. Jones, pastor of the Mendenhall Baptist church, conducted the services.
Surviving the infant are the parents, Sheriff and Mrs. T. M. Bishop, and serveral brothers and sisters.
Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Bishop are the paternal grandparents of the child.
Gravesite Details
No headstone. Buried between infant sister Johan Bishop and Danny Bishop.
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