Daviess County MO Archives History .....BRISTOW FAMILY PIONEERS  
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THE BRISTOW FAMILY PIONEERS IN DAVIESS COUNTY 1839
	Narrators:  Mrs. George Richardson and others

     The Bristow family history interests us not only because they lived 
originally in Daviess county just across the Caldwell county line, but because 
so many of the Bristow families have lived in or near Hamilton.  Mrs. 
Richardson, one of the narrators, while not a Bristow by blood, married into 
the Richardson family and Mrs. Richardson the elder was a daughter of the 
pioneer Wm. Bristow.
     The first Bristow came into the Gallatin community 1839 and was the first 
blacksmith in Gallatin.  He had much to do, for his trade contributed to 
pioneer life.  Owen McGee who was originally a Gallatin settler but moved to 
Cameron, would hunt thru the woods for a crooked walnut limb of the right 
shape to make a mould board for a plow and Mr. Bristow would iron it for a 
customer.  He ironed many of the first plows used in Daviess county.
     The Bristows had a yoke of big black oxen which they worked to an ox 
cart.  Part of the farm work was to haul the winter wood from the river bottom 
(Grand River), and many boys went to help.  On one trip, they had ten boys on 
the cart, and three boys on each ox.  In fording the stream, they got into too 
deep water and all got a ducking; in fact one of Tom Frame's boys was almost 
drowned.
     Judge Wm. Bristow of Daviess county and afterwards of Hamilton was nine 
years old when his father came from Indiana to Daviess co.  He first married 
Sarah Grantham, daughter of Garretsom Grantham of Daviess county and she died 
1880 aged 59, the mother of all his children.  The Granthams were early 
settlers.  The account of his thrilling fight with the Caseys at Hamilton on 
the Civil War, is given in the first series of interviews (1934).
     Miles, a brother of William Bristow lived his whole life in Sheridan 
township, Daviess county and is buried in Wooderson cemetery with his 
immediate family.
     Mrs. Sarah Richardson, daughter of the pioneer, married Otis Richardson 
of Daviess county and the couple moved down into the new town of Hamilton 
where for many years, he was a prominent citizen.
     Interview  1934.


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