Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885
Crittenden Co.

DR. M. BRISTOW, Crittenden County, was born in Essex County, Va., May 20,
1806, and is a son of Sanders and Jane (Abbott) Bristow, natives of
Virginia and of English descent.  His father died in 1810, and in 1811
the mother came to Kentucky with her family and settled in Jessamine
County, where she resided until her death, which occurred about 1816.
After his mother's death, he remained with his uncle until about sixteen
years of age, when he came to Morganfield, Ky., and began working out
for himself.  He remained there until twenty-one years of age, and then
came to Crittenden County and followed farming and shoe-making.  In 1832
he settled on his present farm.  He first entered fifty acres and
subsequently owned 440 acres, a part of which has since been divided 
among his children.  In 1832 he began reading medicine by himself, and
soon after began the active practice of his profession, which for the
past fifty-five years he has followed.  He is now one of the oldest
practitioners in the county, and is still in active practice.  Dr.
Bristow was married November, 1828, to Miss Elizabeth Hill, daughter
of William Hill; she died in November 1829.  His second marriage was
May 1, 1832, to Miss Sarah Gilbert, a daughter of Moulton and Nancy
(Kane) Gilbert.  Mrs. Sarah Bristow was born in Tennessee, in 1812,
and is the mother of eight children, of whom five are now living:  Ira;
Elizabeth, widow of Francis Woods; Susan, wife of Harvey Hughes; Ann,
wife of John Heath, and Nancy J., wife of Marion Daniel.  Dr. Bristow
is a member of Zion Lodge, No. 70, and Wingate Council No. 35.  He is
identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Bristow Abbott Hill Gilbert Kane Woods Heath Hughes Daniel
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Essex-VA Jessamine-KY TN

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