This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bristol, Scovil, Foote, Crippen, Crocker, Lockwood, Elmor, Stilson, Williams, Burdette Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1782 Message Board Post: SOURCE: Biographical Review of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties New York Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1895 ALBERT G. BRISTOL, a successful farmer of Avon, Livingston county, N. Y., was born in Canaan, Columbia County, January 6, 1812. His grandfather, Eliphalet BRISTOL, who was born in Connecticut, April 7, 1751, removed to Canaan when a young man, making the journey on foot, and bringing an axe. He secured land, covered with a heavy growth of timber. He cleared a far and lived there with his wife Sarah (SCOVIL) BRISTOL, until his death in 1833. They had six children, one son and five daughter, all of whom married and settled in Lima, Livingston County, N.Y. The father of Albert G. BRISTOL, Eliphalet BRISTOL, Jr. was born in Canaan, January 3, 1784, and having inherited a part of the old homestead, afterward bought the rest from the heirs, and adding more to it, made this place his home for life, dying in 1869, at the age of eighty-five years. His first wife was Lucy CRIPPEN, of Columbia County, New York, daughter of Benjamin and Deborah (FOOTE) CRIPPEN. She died in 1826 ! at the age of forty-six years, leaving seven children; namely, Sarah, Albert G., Benjamin, Deborah, Lucy, Lydia, and Scovil. Mr. BRISTOL then married Laura CROCKER, of Chatham, who had two sons – Horace and Abel. Albert G. BRISTOL was educated in his native town, where he resided till February 1836, when he came to Livingston County, making the eight days journey in a sleigh. He had visited this section in the fall of the previous year, and bought one hundred acres of land in the town of Avon, which then consisted of only one uncompleted house, sixteen by eighteen. This he finished, and making it comfortable, commenced his career as an independent farmer. He soon built another house and frame barn, and otherwise improved the property, residing there until 1852, when he sold that farm and purchased the place on which he now resides. Here he erected a number of buildings; with modern improvements, which rank among the best in the town. The farm consists of one hundred and twenty-five acres, which he has managed very successfully. April 14, 1835, he married Miranda LOCKWOOD, who was born in Canaan, Columbia County, N.Y., September 6, 1813, daughter of Abijah and Talatha (ELMOR) LOCKWOOD. Mrs. BRISTOL died in 1890, leaving five children – George W. Lucy L., James L., Martin H., and Albert M. George W. married Mary STILSON, February 13, 1866, and after her death, July 23, 1866, was again married to Nellie WILLIAMS, December 25, 1867. The latter died July 26, 1879, and he was subsequently married for the third time to Helen BURDETTE. He now resides at Grand Rapids, and has one son, Frank. Lucy L. lives at home with her father. James L. married March 3, 1864, Emma HUNTINGTON, who died July 30, 1876, leaving six children – Louis, Gertrude, Fred, Miranda, Harry, and Grace. James then married, November 2, 1881, Jessie HALLOCK. Martin H. married Helen WARNER, June 8, 1881, and has three children – Roie, Jay, and Harriet. Albert M. married Minnie REMINGTON, June 7, 1888 and ha! s one son, Benjamin Clifford.