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.
[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, pages 57-58.]