52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #17 Adrianna Bristol

Adrianna Bristol

Adrianna Mary Miller was born about 1852 in New York. The 1860 Federal Census lists an Adrianna Miller of the same age living in Flushing, Queens, New York. This may or may not be the same Adrianna. It is known that on January 25, 1871 she married Charles Brown Bristol in Lima, Livingston County, New York. State and Federal Censuses list her and Charles living in Lima in 1875 and 1880. Their daughter Jessie was born on October 8, 1871. William was born on September 29, 1873 and Mary on August 13, 1880.  For whatever the reason, Charles uprooted the family and moved to Grafton in the Dakota Territory in 1882. There he operated a gambling house. She died in Grafton on November 2, 1886. Her body was sent back to Honeoye Falls, New York for burial.

Sources

1860 & 1880 Federal Census

1875 NY State Census

Ancestry Family Data Collection

Bristol Family Bible
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52 Ancestors #5  William Augustus Bristol Makes the US Postal Museum

William Augustus Bristol, the son of Charles B. and Adrianna M. (Miller) Bristol, was born on September 29, 1873 in Lima, NY. According to the National Postal Museum he resided in Green Cove Springs, Florida in March of 1888 with his aunt and uncle, Mary and James Yerkes. At that time his father was living in the Dakota Territory. This fact was discovered by a member of a philatelic genealogy buff who emailed me about a postal cover on the US Postal Museum website. They featured envelopes that had weather reports stamped on the covers by the post office. I was excited to see it especially because I didn’t have any idea that my great grandfather had ever lived in Florida. I visited the museum with my stamp club and was hoping to get a picture with me holding the envelope but it wasn't possible because they needed advanced notice to retrieve it from their files. 

 By 1892 he was living with his father in the newly formed city of Great Falls, Montana. His father died on Feb. 10, 1892 after which he moved back to New York. As an adult he moved to Batavia, NY where he married Mattie Hadley in 1895. He had two children, Hazel Bonalyn Bristol and Mabel Arlene Bristol. He had his arm amputated because of a tumor but the cancer continued to grow and he died in Buffalo, NY on April 21, 1899.

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