Cloie Melton

The musical Bishop family picture taken ca. 1940. Looking at picture left to right: Nora Wilhoit, Chloie Melton, Ed Bishop, Willis Bishop, Lee Bishop, Jennie Wilhoit and Ernie Bishop.

• Census: 1880 - Kansas, Edgar Co, IL
• Census: 1900 - Kansas Twp, Edgar Co, IL
• Emigration: 1948 - Paris, Edgar Co, IL
• Residence: Paris, Edgar Co, IL - Dec 28 1950

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Obituary of Cloie Melton. December 1958.

Mrs. Cloie Melton, 86, passed away at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday while en route to Paris hospital after suffering a heart attack.

She was born in Vigo county August 17, 1872, the daughter of Joshua and Nancy Ann Fields Bishop. Her husband, Thomas Melton, passed away in 1924.

Survivors are the following children: Mrs. Bertha Murphy, East Chicago, Ind., Mrs. Edith Yoho, Youngstown, O., Mrs. Nina Kolepp, Kenmore, N.Y., Emery, Paris and Ralph, address unknown; one sister, Mrs. Jennine Wilhoit, Paris, two brothers, R. E. and Lee Bishop, Marshall; 18 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Two children are deceased. Rev. H. L. Hayes, Charleston, will officiate at the funeral to be held at two o'clock Friday afternoon at the Batchelor funeral home. Burial will be at the Richwoods cemetery south of Kansas. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday afternoon.