Alfred Bishop

The first record known of Alfred Allen Bishop and Delilah Noris is their marriage in Carter County Tennessee on June 14, 1827. Even though Noris is listed on the marriage record, family tradition lists Delilah's maiden as Morgan and her mother's maiden name as Rogers. Alfred's mother's maiden name was Green-street. The next record of Alfred and Delilah is the Sangomon County Illinois 1830 census. They were living in the town of Springfield with their daughter Mary who was born in 1829 in Illinois. During the next eight years they remained in Springfield and had four more children, Rachel Edney born May 14, 1832, Elizabeth Jane born 1834, Susan Madita born 1836, and Andrew Jackson born March 12, 1838. There are no known land records for Alfred and Delilah in Sangomon County. After March 1838 Alfred and Delilah left Springfield and moved south-west to Ripley County Missouri where they appear in the June 1840 census. Alfred and Delilah remained in Ripley for nine years where five more daughters were born: Eliza Emaline, 1840; Margaret Laduska, Dec 22, 1839; Katherine, 1843; Henrietta C, 1845; and Locaste Oedema "Dee", Feb 16,1848. When "Dee" was three months old, the family headed for Texas, traveling in an ox-cart. The journey was very slow and it was necessary to stop and plant in order to replenish their stock of seed for the new homestead in Fayette County, Texas. Alfred Allen and Delilah Bishop arrived in Fayette County Texas by September 1849 when their eleventh and last child Rebecca C was born. In Fayette County 1850 census Alfred and Delilah are shown with their nine youngest children, eight daughters and one son. Their oldest daughter, Mary, and her husband, John Clark Johns, lived next door. In another adja-cent household was their second daughter, Rachel,who was married to John Garvin Burleson. In January 1856 land records show Alfred Bishop purchasing 600 acres on Peach Creek adjacent to the Whiteside property. Six months later, on June 21, 1856, this land was divided and sold to three of his sons-in-law, Henry Gibbons who married Susan; William A Gibbons who married Eliza; and John Garvin Burleson who married Rachel. In 1860 Alfred Bishop and Delilah lived in Plum Grove, Fayette County Texas with four children in their household and five married children living in the immediate area. By 1870 Alfred and Delilah had moved to Zanzenbourg, Kerr County Texas. They were also in Kerr County in the 1880 census. Delilah Bishop died February 5, 1885; Alfred died six years later on January 6, 1891. It is thought they remained in Kerr County until their deaths. They are both buried in Center Point Cemetery Center Point, Kerr Co. They are my 3td great grandparants - David Lamar Taylor