Person:John Bristow (11)

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John Bristow, Jr., youngest son of John of Tazewell, was born January 31, 1770. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married, secondly, Margaret Smithers (Smathers), daughter of Andrew Smithers (Smathers) of Washington County, Virginia, and Bath County, Kentucky. John Bristow, Jr. died March 11, 1840, in Bath County, Kentucky.

John Bristow, Jr., half-brother of James Bristow and a great uncle of William Wiltshire Bristow, was born January 31, 1770. If he went from Tazewell County, Virginia, to Kentucky in 1786 as one family tradition has it, then he must have returned to southwestern Virginia before settling in Kentucky permanently. On February 23, 1808, John Bristow, Jr. and Margaret, his wife, of Tazewell County, deeded to David Robinson a tract of land granted to John Bristow, Sr. in 1783.

By his first wife (name unknown) John Bristow, Jr. is supposed to have had two sons, Francis (Marion?) Bristow and Barnabas Bristow. According to family tradition both of these sons served in the War of 1812 and were not heard of thereafter. The only information we have about Francis Bristow is that he failed to appear at a Militia Muster in Tazewell County in 1807-08 required of all males 18 to 50, but we do know that a Barnabas Bristow of Logan County, Kentucky, served as a private in Barbour's Kentucky Militia, Captain Latham's Company, from September 1 to December 23, 1812. He died at Vincennes, Indiana, on December 24, 1812.

By his second wife, Margaret Smithers (Smathers), John Bristow, Jr. had Thomas Bristow, Andrew Bristow, Joseph Hamilton Bristow, Sarah Bristow, Elizabeth Bristow, Martha Bristow, Anne Bristow, and Linnie Anne Bristow.

Joseph Hamilton Bristow was born March 31, 1813, in Bath County, Kentucky, and he died March 23, 1896, in Baldwin, Kansas. His first wife was Anne Smith of Montgomery County, Kentucky. Their children were: The Reverend William Bristow, Andrew Bristow, Thomas Bristow, and Margaret Bristow. He married, secondly, Caroline Jordan, daughter of John and Malinda Pickerill Jordan and aunt of America Hinton Bristow, wife of Andrew Bristow.

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