Francis Peyton BRISTOW

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. IGI - Illinois Batch #7521001 (p.12), Batch #7606101 (p.25)
               #7521001 (p.12) birth and marriage records
            3. FHL Book #929.273/B776b, "Bristow - Douglass" (p.16-17)
               By Julia J. Bristow - he is her grandfather.
            4. FHL Book #976.9435/V2h, "Shelby County, Kentucky Marriages"
               Vol.#2 (p.41).
            5. 1998 Ancestral File - nil
            6. 1997 Ordinance Index - info. added

NOTES: 1. About 1890 they moved to Frontier County, Nebraska. When his 2nd
            wife Sarah Ann died, he moved to Illinois.  He was a stout, robust
            active man - lived an active life - moved to Missouri - 3 years
            before his death - lost his eyesight totally blind and helpless.
         2. Francis Peyton Bristow, had 18 children, 55 grandchildren and 7 great
           grandchildren. From obituary read at his funeral.
         3. Sarah Ann Adcock (Covey) maiden name: Tully or Tilly, a widow with
           children.
         4. Child: Sarah fell from swing in an old apple tree, broke his back and
           did not live very long.
         5. Child: Edward married and died Curtis, moved to Canada.
         6. Child: Orville moved to Canada, afterwards- Wash. state Girard.
         7. Child: Charles moved to Canada.
         8. Child: Richard died shortly after mother.
         9. Mary Jones died 18 months after marriage.
        10. Francis Peyton Bristo, grandfather of Julia J. Bristow.
        11. When Sarah Ann died, Henry Clay Bristow was a baby and with some
           help of an aunt, James Jackson Bristow undertook to bring up his
           brothers while his father was farming. He felt his father should have
           married sooner so they would have had a mother and when his father did
           mary the third time if left James free to get an education. James
           loved his step-mother and their children called her "Aunt Sarah".