Francis Peyton BRISTOW

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. FHL Book 929.273/B776b, "Bristow - Douglass," (pp.1-2,15)
               By Julia J. Bristow - Her parents.
            3. 1998 Ancesrtal File (nil)
            4. 1997 Ordinance Index (nil)

NOTES: 1. When his mother died, his brother Henry Clay Bristow was a baby
          and with some help of an Aunt, James Jackson Bristow undertook
          the job of bring up is brothers while his father was farming. He
          felt his father should have married sooner so they would have had
          a mother. When his father did marry the third time, it left James
          free to get an education. James loved his step-mother and his
          children called her "Aunt Sarah."
           Educated at Shurtleff College - Alton, Illinois. Developed
          throat ailment, told to move to dryer climate. He and his wife
          moved to Fairview, Kansas (ailment continued). They moved to
          Superior, Nebraska, he retired fro active pastoral duties and
          settled in Edgar, Nebraska.  While there he served as temporary
          pastor for several small church, without moving his family.
           He finaly, on 20 November 1908 - moved the family to Lincoln
          Nebraska - made their home at 3041 North Street - It is still the
          home of his widow.
           During the years of his ministry - he baptized 1500 persons- yet
          he felt his work for the Savior was not finished - he found a need
          for a Sunday School Teacher at the State Penal Institution. Not
          only did he go there on Sunday, but many times during the week,
          talking with men.  During the 14 years of his service there. 300
          men were paroled to his care, and all "made good."
           For more than 30 years before his death, he suffered with siatica
          rhuematism. It caused one limb to be a little shorter than the
          other making it necessary for him to walk with a cane. He suffered
          silently and whent about the master's work climbing stairs at the
          Penal institution and calling on men in business to find places
          for his parolies, sometimes finding a man he felt needed education
          in christianity and calling as a pastor would, try to help him
          find God. (Your compiler found these things after her father's
          death, as these men came to pay their respects.)  He loved poetry,
          and one of his favorite poems was "Let Me live in a House by the
          side of the road" and "Be a Friend to Man".
           At age 23 - he joined the Masonic Lodge and stayed in it all his
          life.  Politically, he was a Democrate.  He did a great work in
          the cause of Temperance - really it was total abstinance. His
          untiring efforts for this cause brought many results.
       2. Educated at Shurtleff College- Alton, IL. developed throat ailement
         told to move to dryer climet.
       3. James met Sarah as he served the Baptist church in Berlin Il.
       4. Sarah Douglass, Baptist Church honored her for 80 years of Sunday
         School teaching. Still alive in 1960.
       5. Child: Julia Jessie Bristow, compiler of this book, married but didn't
         give husbands name, divorced, her name restored. Had no children. She
         apparantly was so unhappy about her husband she was not going to
         remember him an doesn't want anyone to know who he is.
                  

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. FHL Book #929.273/B776b, "Bristow - Douglass," (p.15) By
               Julia J. Bristow.
            3. 1998 Ancestral File (nil)
            4. 1997 Ordinance Index - info. added

NOTES: 1. Most of the Descendant of Josiah William Bristow live in or
            near macoupin County, Illinois - as do those of Francis Peyton
            Bristow Jr. - each year on the last Sunday in August a Bristow
            Family Reunion is held.
         2. Child: Henry, died near Girard.
         3. Child: James, still living near Girard, Macoupin, IL.
                  

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
                Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. FHL Book #929.273/B776b, "Bristow - Douglass," (p.15,16)
               By Julia J. Bristow.
            2. 1997 Ordinance Index
            3. 1998 Ancestral File (nil)

NOTES: 1. Most of the descendants of Josiah William Bristow live in or
            near Macoupin County, Illinois ( as do those of Francis Peyton
            Bristow Jr.) and each year on the last Sunday in August, a
            Bristow Family reunion is held.
         2. Josiah William Bristow, farmer.
                  

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. FHL Book #929.273/B776b, "Bristow - Douglass," (p.16) By
               Julia J. Bristow.
            3. 1998 Ancestral File (nil)
            4. 1997 Ordinance Index