SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
242. Alexander Winchell FRENCH
SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
SOURCE: "The Samuel and Mary French Family of Stratford,
Connecticut", The French Family Association,
FFA Chart 11 revision 0, June 1, 1989.
OCCUPATION: Farmer.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
MARRIAGE: Married on 22 Nov 1880.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
MARRIAGE: Married on 7 Sep 1872.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
258. Caroline Helena VAN DUSEN
MARRIAGE: married on 15 Mar 1893.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
260. Sherman Schuyler VAN DUSEN
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
MARRIAGE: Married on 15 Oct 1883.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
262. Annie Henriette VAN DUSEN
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
MARRIAGE: Married on 17 Nov 1891. Married 2nd wife Margaret Ann Hill
on 23 Nov 1898. Children are from his first marriage.OCCUPATION: Carpenter.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
264. Eva Etna Electa VAN DUSEN
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
MARRIAGE: Married 27 May 1891.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
266. Carma Kmrah Oraw VAN DUSEN
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
MARRIAGE: Married 26 Aug 1891.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
MARRIAGE: Married on 20 Aug 1898.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
SOURCE: Nancy Gaylene Damrow, Nov. 1994.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
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SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
BURIAL: Smyrna Cemetery.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
BURIAL: Smyrna Cemetery.
BURIAL: Smyrna Cemetery.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
BURIAL: Smyrna Cemetery.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
Lived in Gunnison and Delta Counties, Colorado.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
Still born child.
SOURCE: Lance Bristol.
BIRTH: Date of birth of 25 Aug 1855 supported by most sources,
including 1860, 1870 and 1900 census records and death certificate.
Noted as 25 Aug 1856, however, on tombstone, which is supported by
1880 census. Noted as Oct 1854 per step-mother's "Declaration for
Original Pension."BURIAL: Buried in Ansley Cemetery.
From "History of Custer County, Nebraska" by W.L. Gaston and A.R.
Humphrey, published 1919 by Western Publishing and Engraving Company,
Lincoln, Nebraska:
"RUPERT CLARENCE BRISTOL [sic-Clarence Rupert Bristol]. -- Among
the homesteaders of Custer county who passed through many privations
and hardships, courageously persevered in the face of discouraging
situations, overcame seemingly unsurmountable obstacles, and
eventually won their way to well deserved success, was the late Rupert
C. Bristol, who, from the time of his arrival, in 1884, until his death,
October 19, 1916, was one of his community's most reliable and highly
esteemed citizens.
Mr. Bristol was born at Port Jersey [sic-Port Jervis], New York,
August 25, 1855, the yougest of the three children of Horace and Anna
(French) Bristol. His mother died when he was but three years of age and
his father, who was a veteran of the Civil war, in which he served three
years as captain of Company B, First New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry,
married again, and in 1869 moved to Iowa, where he died in 1869
[sic-1874]. Rupert C. Bristol was educated in the public schools of New
Jersey and Iowa, and in the latter state he married Miss Nancy A.
Patrick, a daughter of George and Emily (Hurndon [sic-Herndon?]) Patrick,
the former born in Kentucky and the latter in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs.
Patrick removed to Custer county in 1890 and here followed agricultural
pursuits until their death.
After his marriage Mr. Bristol continued to be engaged in farming in
Iowa for a number of years, but in 1884 he decided to try his fortunes in
Nebraska. He accordingly packed his household effects in a wagon and,
with his wife and their four children, started on the trip overland from
Monona county, Iowa, in October, the journey consuming eight days.
Securing a homestead in the vicinity of Ansley, he started farming under
the most discouraging conditions. Conveniences of even the most meagre
kind were not to be had; the bare necessities of life were difficult to
secure; and for several years the family fuel during the winter months
consisted of brush and weeds that had been gathered during the foregoing
summer and then dried and put away for use. Mr. Bristol was making
good progress when, in 1890, the drouth killed his crops, and he had
hardly recovered from this when a terrific hail storm wiped out his 1893
farm crops. In the following year he was again visited by a devastating
drouth, but in the face of these discouragements he kept perseveringly
and doggedly on, and his persistence and courage were eventually
rewarded by success, as shown by the fact that at the time of his death
his landed estate consisted of 480 acres of land in a good state of
cultivation, and numerous modern improvements. Mr. Bristol became one
of the influential and greatly respected members of his community, and
took an active and helpful part in all good movements. he was
particularly active in the work of the Baptist church, of which he and
Mrs. Bristol were lifelong members. He taught a Bible class in the
Sunday school, both in Iowa and Nebraska, and was a leader otherwise in
church and Sunday school work. Originally a Democrat in politics, when
the Progressive party came into being he transferred his allegiance to
that organization. His death removed from his community a helpful and
constructive citizen and an honorable man.
Mr. and Mrs. Bristol were the parents of eleven children: Bertha is the
wife of George F. Dewey, a Custer county farmer; Belle is the wife of
Earl Hiser, of Custer county; Mrs Clara Dobesh is the wife of a farmer of
this county; Clarence R. and Ernest are engaged in agricultural pursuits
in Custer county; George is likewise a resident of this county; Myrtle E.
is the wife of Grover A. Holeman, cashier of the Farmers State Bank of
Ansley, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this work; Clyde
and Cleo are twins and Clyde is on the home farm with his mother, Cleo
being the wife of H. Guy Marsh, of Ansley; Lawrence is now in the navy,
at San Francisco, California; and Emma died at the age of fifteen
months."As printed in "Ansley Area History" (printed about 1976):
"Rupert C. Bristol [sic]"
"Among the earliest homesteaders of Custer County, and one of the
first half dozen early settlers in the McIntosh school district was Rupert
C. Bristol [sic]. He arrived in the rural Ansley area in 1884 remaining
there until his death October 19, 1916.
Mr. Bristol was born in Port Jervis, New York, August 25, 1855, the
youngest of three children of Horace and Anna (French) Bristol. His
mother died when he was three years old and his father, who was a
veteran of the Civil War, in which he served three years as Captain of
Company B, First New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, married again, and in
1869 moved to Iowa. The father died in Iowa about 1873.
Rupert C. Bristol [sic] was united in marriage on November 1, 1877
with Miss Nancy A. Patrick whose parents, George and Emily (Herndon)
Patrick, came to Custer County to live in 1890 settling near Mason City -
the father a native of Kentucky died in April 1911 and the mother, a
native of Indiana, died in June 1909. Mrs. Bristol's family consisted of
two brothers and one sister: Levi Patrick, who resided in Mason City;
William, who resided in Kingman, Kansas and Mrs. Dora Rhodes, wife of
John Rhodes, who resided in Ansley.
In 1884 Mr. Bristol brought his wife and four children, with a team
and wagon to Custer County - starting from Minona, Iowa in October,
camping along the ways and averaging over fourty miles a day they made
the trip in eight days. He took up a homestead on the south half of the
southwest quarter of section thirty-one, Township fifteen, Range
eighteen. To this tract he added two hundred acres of adjoining land.
Mr. Bristol became one of the influential and greatly respected
members of his community. He was particularly active in the work of
the Baptist Church and served for many years as a member of the School
Board in the McIntosh district.
Mr. and Mrs. Bristol were the parents of eleven children. Mrs. (Bertha)
George Dewey; Mrs. (Belle) Earl Hiser; Mrs. (Clara) Anton Dobesh;
Clarence, Ansley businessman (cars, farm implements, grain elevator and
area farmer and rancher), Ernest, long time farmer and rancher
southwest of Ansley; George, retired farmer and rancher now of Ansley;
Mrs. (Myrtle) Grover Holeman; Clyde, now residing in Florida; Mrs. (Cleo)
Guy Marsh of Hastings, and Laurence, retired farmer, rancher and County
Supervisor. One daughter, Emily, died in infancy.
Several descendants of the Rupert Bristol [sic] family still live in and
near Ansley. These include: George and wife, Lola, their son, Roscoe, and
wife, Marguerite (Staab); Lawrence and wife, Zelma; Clara (Mrs. Fred)
Mills and sister, Veronica (Mrs. Harry) Sennett, daughters of Clara
Bristol Dobesh, and Veronica's son, Dick and wife; Dean, son of Ernest
Bristol, and wife, Maxine, and son, Rick; Emma (Mrs. Thad) Armour,
daughter of Clarence Bristol, and her daughter, Beverly (Mrs. Albert)
Sherbeck and children, Alvin and Arlene; and Leonard, son of Clarence
Bristol, and wife, Lois, and children, Lance and Lanette (Mrs. Terry)
Doane."SOURCE: Military Pension file, Horace W. Bristol, Civil War - Union
Forces - 1st New Jersey Cavalry, copy obtained from
National Archives Reference Services Branch.
Eighth Census of the United States, 1860:
Ohio, Huron Co., Wakeman Twp., Roll 991, page 158,
dwelling 1172, family 1163, National Archives Microfilm
Publication M653.
Ninth Census of the United States, 1870:
Iowa, Crawford Co., Charter Oak Twp., Roll 385, sheet 1,
dwelling 8, family 8, National Archives Microfilm
Publication.
Tenth Census of the United States, 1880:
Iowa, Crawford Co., Charter Oak Twp., Roll 335, Vol. 8,
E.D. 63, Sheet 1, Line 36, National Archives Microfilm
Publication.
Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900:
Nebraska, Custer, Co., Algernon Twp., Vol. 9, E.D. 57,
sheet 10, line 34, National Archives Microfilm Publication.
Tombstone inscription.
Certificate of Death No. 1202, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
Lincoln, NE.
BURIAL: Buried in Ansley Cemetery.
SOURCE: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880:
Iowa, Crawford Co., Charter Oak Twp., Roll 335, Vol. 8,
E.D. 63, Sheet 1, Line 37, National Archives Microfilm
Publication.
Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900:
Nebraska, Custer, Co., Algernon Twp., Vol. 9, E.D. 57,
sheet 10, line 35, National Archives Microfilm Publication.
Certificate of Death No. E13238, Bureau of Vital Statistics,
Lincoln, NE.
Tombstone inscription.
Known as Emily, as indicated by Ansley History. Also referred to as Ema.
BIRTH: 5 Mar 1889 per family data; 5 May 1889 per tombstone.
BURIAL: Buried in Ansley Cemetery.
SOURCE: Tombstone inscription.
SOURCE: Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900:
Nebraska, Custer, Co., Algernon Twp., Vol. 9, E.D. 57,
sheet 10, line 44, National Archives Microfilm Publication.
Lance Bristol.