History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
668.

JASPER BRISTOW (deceased) was born in Virginia.  He was reared on a
farm.  He married in Virginia, Clarissa Powell, and they had four
children.  The mother died in Oldham County, Ky.  Mr. Bristow then came
to Daviess County,  where he married Mrs. Rachel (Barnhill) Cruze, widow
of Thomas Cruze.  Mr. and Mrs. Bristow settled in Masonville Precinct,
on a farm three fourths of a mile east of Bethabara church, where he
built the first brick building in the county.  He died here in 1848.  He
and wife were members of the Baptist church  at Bethabara.  She died in
1870.  They had a family of nine children, seven living--Benjamin T.,
married Sallie Crawford; Anna, married Christopher Karns, now a widow,
residing with her youngest son; Jasper, Jr. (deceased), married Mrs.
Nancy J. Ward; Ansel H., married Armacinda Miles; she died and he then
married Miss Lanham; Samuel H., married Nannie Massy; William, married
Almina Karns, who died and he then married Queen V. Ashby; Rachel W.,
wife of Christopher Watkins; Hiram, born in Masonville Precinct, June
15, 1842.  Hiram was but six years old when his father died.  Oct. 17,
1865, he married Minerva Kirk, a native of Masonville Precinct, and a
daughter of John L. and Susan (Cottrell) Kirk.  They have had six
children--Ida L., born Oct. 7, 1866; Ella B., born July 21, 1870; Mary
L., born Feb. 7, 1873; John N., born June 9, 1876, died May 1, 1880;
Thomas B., born Dec. 24, 1879, and Minnie D., born Nov. 10, 1882.  Mr.
and Mrs. Bristow are members of the Baptist church at Bethabara.  He is
Superintendent of Bethabara Sabbath-school.  He owns a fine farm of
eighty-seven acres, seventy-nine acres under cultivation.  In politics
he is a Democrat.

Bristow Powell Barnhill Cruze Crawford Karns Ward Miles Lanham Massy
Ashby Watkins Kirk Cottrell
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VA Oldham

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