This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IGB.2ACI/198.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your response. Yes, James's older brother was William Epenetus Bishop. The first wife of William was Maria Sullivan; he married her sister Elizabeth Sullivan after she died E&E = Epenetus Bishop and Esther (Shirkey) the parents of Adrian, William, E. Amelia (on the same headstone as Adrian), Arrena and James George W. Bishop, son of William, is my grandfather Sherman Bishop was from Virginia; he could have been tied to Epenetus through New York.