Notes for Alcey Hellen APPERSON

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Notes for Alcey Hellen APPERSON

Based on information in the 1880 U.S. census for Simeon Bishop and his family, the mother of Ella and Persia Bishop, and probably one or more of their younger siblings, was born in Illinois. She apparently died prior to the 1880 census.

The California death index found on the internet in November 2000 at http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi shows that Ella Bishop Drury, whose father's last name was Bishop and whose mother's maiden name was Apperson, was born April 5, 1863, in Illinois and died February 16, 1944, at age 80 in Alameda County, California.

A notice in the "Territorial Enterprise" of September 12, 1869, on page 2, column 5 showed that Mrs. S. Bishop, wife of Dr. Bishop, died in Reno, Nevada, on September 11. Another notice in the "Reno Crescent" on September 12, 1869, also shows that "Mrs. Bishop, wife of Dr. Bishop of this place," died on September 11 in Reno. Both of these newspapers are available on microfilm at the Nevada Historical Society, Reno, Nevada.

The Illinois marriage index shows that Simeon Bishop married Alcey Hellen Apperson in Clay County, Illinois, on April 8, 1855, and that the marriage is recorded in Volume 00A, on page 0085. Based on the maiden name of the mother of Ella Bishop in the California death index, these are probably the same people who moved to Nevada. Ella Bishop was born in Flora, Illinois, which is located in Clay County.

The obituary for Dr. Simeon Bishop that appeared in the "Reno Evening Gazette," Reno, Nevada, for February 21, 1920, on page 8, column 1, as found in microfilm in the Nevada Historical Society, Reno, Nevada, showed that his first wife died in Reno and was buried on the old Mary Wall ranch.

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