Pleasant Farmers

It's so fun to run across photos of ancestors! This is Samuel Pleasant Wiles (1816-1897) and his wife Mary "Mable" Bigger Wiles (1813-1901). They are the great-great-great-grandparents of my husband.

Samuel was a farmer in Pleasant Township, Logan County, Ohio. His property was located 13 miles from the county seat Bellefontaine, between T-78 and C-77, flush against T-35. The dwelling was in the corner of T-78 and T-35. This information I found on the 1875 plat map of Pleasant Township. The photos I found on Ancestry.com, courtesy of a user named rsburk2000.

Samuel and Mable > James Leander Wiles > Hattie Almeda Wiles > Frances Louella Wortman > George Bruce Bishop > Dusty Bishop

The Farmers' Daughter and Son

This is a photo of Etta May Morton (1864 - 1923) and James Henry Bishop (1855 - 1931). I have no idea when this photo was taken! However, judging by their apparent age and dress, my personal genealogist consultant (aka Mom) consulted her resources to determine that this photo could have been made between 1909 - 1913. She informed me that Etta is wearing the common style for women of all ages, dark skirt and jacket with white blouse, with her hair in the style of an older woman, being secured up but not in the full puffy fashion like the younger women did in those days. Her skirt does seem a bit shorter than it should be, but that could be a regional or practical style for farm wives.

These are the great-great-grandparents of my husband, as follows: Etta and James > Glen Owen Bishop > Jimmie R. Bishop > Bruce Bishop > Dusty Bishop.

Etta M. Morton and James Henry Bishop

Etta was one of three children of A.W. Morton and Sarah Ann Inskeep. James was one of three children of Job Summerfield Bishop and Mary Inskeep Moore.

Etta May and James grew up on the large farms of their fathers and mothers, just across the road from one another. By 1875, a local plat map shows that James Bishop had purchased 23 acres of land off State Route 559 between the lands of his father and Etta's father, Mr. Morton. In 1884, he and Etta May were married. 

James H. and Etta M. Bishop were laid to rest in the
Middleburg Cemetery, Zane Twp., Logan Co., Ohio