Alice B. Bishop was born March 24, 1866 in Marshall County Tennessee, near Lewisburg. Mrs. Bishop's maiden name was Hill.
She is next to the youngest of twelve children born to her parents, Peter and Emily Hill. She was married to Mr. William Bishop in 1884, and they made their home in Lewisburg, possessing a beautiful little home which was destroyed by fire in 1902.
She with her husband is living in Pulaski, Tennessee. Mrs. Bishop professed religion in 1884, and is now an ordained preacher of considerable reputation in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; she received license in 1897, and ordination in 1899.
She is President of the Woman's Board of Missions and does regular pastoral work. She has built several churches and is popular as a preacher, this is demonstrated by the great crowd she carries wherever she goes to preach.
[Source: Miniature Souvenir History of the Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Containing a Glimpse of Their Progress Since 1868. By Jno. J. Jenkins, Huntsville, Ala. Huntsville, Ala.: Live and Let Live Book and Job Printing House, 1906]
As far back as can be traced it appears that Alice B. Bishop,
ordained in 1899, was the first female ordained in the Colored
Cumberland Presbyterian Church (now the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church in America) by the Elk
River Presbytery. [pages 57-58]
Served as Pastor of the New Smyrna Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Tennessee. [page 360]
[Source: Built by the Hands: An Historical Account of Love, Faith and Determination in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America 1869-2002. Written by Nancy J. Fuqua. Huntsville, Alabama: Executive Committee of the General Assembly, 2002.]
Peter Hill
born:
North Carolina
died: before 1880 census
wife:
Emily Unknown
born:
c1825 or 1829 - Georgia, Alabama, or Virginia
died:
after 1880 census
1870 Census - Lewisburg, District
15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Emily Hill, Mulatto, age 45, Keeping
House, born in Georgia)
1880 Census - District
15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Emily Hill, Black, age 51, Farmer,
Widowed, born in Alabama)
Children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. Sarah "Sally" Hill
born: c1848 or c 1852 - Tennessee
1870 Census - Lewisburg, District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Sarah Hill, Black, age 22, Keeping House)
1880 Census - District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Sally Hill, Black, age 28, Daughter, Housekeeping)7. John Hill
born: c1853 - Tennessee
1870 Census - Lewisburg, District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (John Hill, Mulatto, age 17)8. Julia Hill
born: c1856 - Tennessee
1870 Census - Lewisburg, District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Julia Hill, Mulatto, age 14)9. William Hill
born: c1858 - Tennessee
1870 Census - Lewisburg, District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Wm. Hill, Black, age 12)10. Chaney Hill
born: c1863 - Tennessee
1870 Census - Lewisburg, District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (China Hill, Black, age 7)
1880 Census - District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Chaney Hill, Black, Daughter, age 16, Housekeeping)11. Alice B. Hill
Ordained Minister in the Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church
born: 24 March 1866 - near Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee
died: 15 February 1909 - 905 11th Avenue N., Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
buried: Mount Ararat Cemetery - Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
1870 Census - Lewisburg, District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Alice Hill, Black, age 9)
1880 Census - District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Allis Hill, Black, Daughter, age 19)
1884 - professed religion
1897 - Licensed by Elk River Presbytery
1899 - Ordained by Elk River Presbytery
1900 Census - Lewisburg, Civil District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (Allice Bishop, Wife, Black, age 36, born March 1864)
1902 - house destroyed by fire
1905 - livied in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee
married: 28 July 1884 - Marshall County, Tennessee
husband: William S. Bishop
[son of Sampson Bishop and Elizabeth Carothers]
born: August 1855 - Tennessee
died: 28 April 1927- Marshall County, Tennessee
buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery - Marshall County, Tennessee
1870 Census - District 5, Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee (Wm. Bishop, Mulatto, age 14, living with his parents, Sampson and Elizabeth Bishop)
1880 Census - District 5, Marshall County, Tennessee (William S. Bishop, Mulatto, age 24, son, single, living with his parents, Samson and Elizabeth Bishop)
1900 Census - Lewisburg, Civil District 15, Marshall County, Tennessee (William Bishop, Head, Black, Farmer, born Aug. 1855)
1910 Census -
1920 Census -12.
Marriage License from Marshall County, Tennessee 
Death Certificate
