MRS. MARTHA BOTTOMLEY - Biography

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This biography appears on page 635 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


MRS. MARTHA BOTTOMLEY, widow, Sec. 24; P. O., Burlington; the daughter
of Thomas and Sarah Jessop; born in Yorkshire, England, in 1812. She
married, in Yorkshire, England, Dec. 14, 1830, Edwin Bottomley, who was
also born in Yorkshire, in 1809; in 1842 they came to America; arrived
at Burlington Aug. 4, 1842, and located on the farm they occupy now; he
bought eighty acres of Government land in Section 24, first buying the
claim to it from Mr. Flint for $40 then built a small shanty, in which
they lived two years; in the winter of 1843, he completed a new
residence and moved into it, a large brick and frame house, with barns,
etc. Mr. Bottomley died in Burlington, in 1850, and is buried here; they
had seven children, six daughters and one son - Hannah, Ruth, Arnimal,
Salina, Cecelia, and Mary, all married and away, except Arnimal, now
living with her mother in the house they built; the son, Thomas, married
Amelia Frost, of Rochester, and they also live at the homestead with
Mrs. Bottomley.