| Name |
YARNALL, Matilda |
| Born |
3 Mar 1818 |
Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Biography |
BIOGRAPHY by Albert Cadwallader Worrell: Matilda's father, Owen, died when Matilda was only nine months old. Her mother was left with four children, the oldest of whom was only nine. Margaret Dunn Yarnall appears in the 1820 Census as head of her family. On May 15, 1823, she married Evan Evans of Delaware County. Matilda's mother Margaret and Evan Evans had two daughters, who were half-sisters of Matilda.
Matilda Yarnall married Pratt Bishop on December 26, 1839 and went to live on his farm in Upper Providence. Matilda apparently was very close to her unmarried brothers, David and Preston. In her will, she specifically leaves their pictures to two of her daughters. She was the chief beneficiary in both of their wills, and was quite well-to-do after Preston died. She inherited $20,000 from David and $103,000 from Preston. She gave a substantial gift to the Media Presbyterian Church in 1884 to build a Preston Yarnall Memorial Chapel at Blue Hill in Upper Providence. By 1926, the chapel was no longer needed, so it was razed and the property reverted to the estate.
Matilda wrote a nine page will on October 30, 1888. In it she divided her furniture and other cherished possessions among her eight daughters (daughter Matilda had died unmarried in 1883) and various grandchildren. This included an organ, piano, and music cabinet, which suggests that Matilda was musically inclined. She established a trust fund with her Philadelphia real estate plus $30,000, the income from which was to be equally divided among her eight daughters annually during their lifetimes, and after their deaths the principal was to be divided among their children. She set up a fund of $12,000, from which $400 was to be paid to each of her grandchildren when they came of age. She also provided that the residue of her estate was to be divided equally among her eight children. Since she left 8 children and 22 grandchildren, even her substantial estate did not make any of them rich.
Matilda Yarnall Bishop died on March 7, 1895. She is buried in Media Cemetery in the same plot with her husband Pratt, her daughter Matilda, and her brothers David and Preston. One large flat gravestone marks the graves of all five.
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| Census (desc) |
1850 |
Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Census (desc) |
1860 |
Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Census (desc) |
1870 |
Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Census (desc) |
1880 |
Media, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States |
| _UID |
8131558C0CA6484EBC42046354FF5B64520D |
| Died |
1895 |
| Buried |
Media, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States |
Address:
Media Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I6021 |
Our Ancestry |
| Last Modified |
21 Jun 2018 |
| Family |
BISHOP, Pratt, b. 23 Mar 1811, Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 1 Mar 1888, Media, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Married |
26 Dec 1839 |
| Children |
| + | 1. BISHOP, Margaret Evans, b. 17 Oct 1840, Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 30 Jan 1922 (Age 81 years) |
| + | 2. BISHOP, Priscilla P., b. 7 Aug 1842, d. 1910 (Age 67 years) |
| + | 3. BISHOP, Deborah R., b. 11 Sep 1844, d. 1906 (Age 61 years) |
| + | 4. BISHOP, Emma Jane, b. 11 Feb 1847, d. Yes, date unknown |
| + | 5. BISHOP, Ellen W., b. 24 Nov 1848, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 6. BISHOP, Matilda Y., b. 26 Dec 1851, d. 3 Feb 1883 (Age 31 years) |
| + | 7. BISHOP, Ida Preston, b. 29 Feb 1856, d. 1931 (Age 74 years) |
| | 8. BISHOP, Hannah Malin, b. 27 Apr 1858, d. Yes, date unknown |
| + | 9. BISHOP, Alice Washington, b. 12 Jul 1862, d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
17 Jan 2021 |
| Family ID |
F1890 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1818 - 1895 (76 years)