This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------78529CD9E9ECAA7B31C40C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 [email protected] --------------78529CD9E9ECAA7B31C40C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="bishop51.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bishop51.txt" Obituaries: Pvt. Edgar Bishop, 1951, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: January 18, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Gaars Mill Soldier Is Second Winn Fatality In the Korean Action Pvt. Edgar Bishop, 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bishop of Gaars Mill, was killed in action in North Korea on November 28, according to an official wire from the U. S. War Department. His wife, Mrs. Mary Sowers Bishop of Walker Community near Wyatt received the telegram Monday afternoon, and notified his parents immediately. Bishop, who was serving with the First Cavalry Division, is the second Winn fatality of the Korean War. He had been overseas since October of last year. He served a one year tour of duty after World War II, and was in the Army reserves at the outbreak of the Korean War. He trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, with a tank group, and was called back to active duty in September. After a brief refresher course at Fort Hood, Texas, Bishop was shipped to Japan, and then to Korea. His last letter home was dated November 23, and he was in North Korea at that time. He was killed five days later. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mary Sowers Bishop, who he married just a week before being called from the Reserves; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bishop of Gaars Mill; two brothers, J. J. Bishop of the U. S. Air Force in San Antonio, and Kelly Bishop of Gaars Mill; one sister, Mary Kay Bishop of Gaars Mill; four (five are listed) half sisters, Mrs. Sara Patter of Chicago, Mrs. Alice Carroll of Dodson, route two, Mrs. Mavis Waters of Shreveport, Mrs. Vera Erskines of New Orleans, and Mrs. Lela Williams of Olla, star route; and one half brother, Huey Bishop, Jr., of Sherman, Texas He was born in Gaars Mill and attended Gaars Mill and Dodson schools. --------------78529CD9E9ECAA7B31C40C00--