Lanore D. Newton ^{1 2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

In a letter written by Vicky Lee of the Mulvane Historical Museum in April of 2003, she states that Lanore Newton moved to Winfield, Kansas to reside in a retirement center she found that interested her. The retirement center was one of those that also housed a nursing home near it. Lanore started out in the retirement center and then ended up in the nursing home where she spent her last days. This information was told to Vicky Lee by Madeline Farber, a close friend of Lanore's who also lived in Mulvane all of her life. Madeline Farber was one of the people instrumental in starting the museum.

Vicky Lee also stated that Lanore and James Bishop were married later in life, sometime after the death of his first wife. The different burial locations are because James Bishop was buried alongside his first wife while Lanore was buried with her parents in Mulvane.

When Lanore died in 1996, she donated several items to the Mulvane Historical Museum including an old handmade quilt, several pieces of antique furniture, and an 1870s Navy revolver which belonged to Thomas B. Burnett. Sometime during the 1990s, the revolver was stolen from the museum and never recovered. She also bequeathed $10,000 in cash.

(Source: Vicky Lee, 114 Cedar Street, Mulvane, Kansas; Attendant at the Mulvane, Kansas Historical Museum)
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About Lanore Bishop. Lanore was engaged when a young lady to a young man in the area but he was killed in an auto crash one night on his way home. She never exhibited an interest in anyone else that we knew of and we'd all just figured she'd always be alone. It came as quite a surprise when she told us she and Jim were getting married. Here she was an "old maid school marm" almost 50. I think she had known Jim when young but I don't know that they ever dated. They were together until he died. It just seemed the right thing to do to bury him in a plot he and his first wife had, and Lanore had always planned to be buried with her parents. I think the family was more disturbed about someone stealing the gun after it was given to the Museum than they were. I've heard it may have been an inside job. It was a joint decision between Lanore and us to donate it, for several reasons. One was safe keeping. Ha!

(Source: Email from Phyllis Storey-Harrison, June 2004)
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Just as her parents did, Lanore seems to have managed to avoid almost all census records.
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  Death Notes:

Name: Lanore Bishop
Given Name: Lanore
Surname: Bishop
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 09 Oct 1996
Event Place: Cowley, Kansas
Event Place (Original): Cowley, Kansas
Age: 93
Birth Date: 23 Dec 1903

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JLRY-M5Q : 4 December 2020), Lanore Bishop, 09 Oct 1996; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She worked as a School Teacher.

• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Gore Township, Sumner, KS on 2 May 1910. ²

1910 US Census
Sheet 10A, District 158, Family 239, Roll 459
Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas, United States
Farm rented
Lanore D. Newton..Daughter..6..KS

(Living with parents.)

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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Gore Township, Sumner, KS on 19 January 1920. ³

1920 US Census
Sheet 14A, District 174, Dwelling 63, Family 63, Roll 553
Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas, United States
Farm owned
Lenore Newton..Daughter..16..KS

(Living with father.)
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• She was buried on 14 October 1996 in the Mulvane Cemetery in Mulvane, KS.

Her gravestone is a flat gray granite about 18" x 12" and about 6" thick sitting on a concrete base. The inscription reads "Lanore Bishop, 1903 - 1996". Her grave is within the Newton Family plot at the Mulvane Cemetery and immediately adjacent to her parents, John E. Newton and Ruhama E. Burnett Newton. Plot: Block 15, Lot 29, N 1/3

Find A Grave Memorial #32182066
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Lanore married James Elias Bishop, son of Stephen Oliver Bishop and Mary Jane Sutherland, about 1960. (James Elias Bishop was born on 15 August 1901,^{6 7} died on 16 February 1976 in Wichita, KS ^{6 7} and was buried on 19 February 1976 in Belle Plaine Cemetery, Belle Plaine, Sumner, Kansas, United States ⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

Lanore and James were married late in life following the death of James' first wife in 1954.
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