Places
Mentioned in Aunt Polly's Diary
µ Washington City « State Capitals
- Bourbon County, where Mary and her family lived until 1831.
- Lexington, Fayette County,
the "capital" of the Bluegrass.- Boone and Kenton Counties,
where Mary spent her adult life.- Cincinnati, Ohio
the metropolis for the central Ohio River region.- Schuyler County, Illinois
where her father James Bristow and nephew John B. Ellis died, 1855.- Adams County, Illinois
where Uncle James and Aunt Patsy Clarkson lived.- Howard County, Missouri
where her eldest brother John Sandidge Bristow died, 1820.- Audrain County,
where Mary's niece Kate Bristow Ellis and her nephew James B. Ellis settled before the Civil War.- Monroe County,
where Statira's Uncle Billy Stephens lived, and where Kate settled with her second husband, Lunsford Dickerson.- Saint Louis,
where valiant Col. Magoffin was confined in a damp dungeon.- Arkansas,
where her nephew John O. Bristow lived before retuniing to Kentucky.- Paducah, Kentucky
where "the infuriate army" of "the tyrant Lincoln" first set foot in Kentucky.- Camp Chase, Ohio
where her nephew Jerome Bristow and Willie Respess were POWs, 1861-1862.- Abingdon, Virginia
where Jerome's coat suffered 21 bullet holes, December 1864.- Buckingham County,
where Grandfather James Bristow, Sr., lived with his four sons until about 1789.- Albemarle County,
where Grandfather Julius Clarkson and his family lived until 1789.- Orange County,
where Statira's grandfather Benjamin Stephens and his family lived until 1806.- Culpepper County,
scene of several Civil War Battles.- Bristow Station,
near Manassas where Mary's heroes trounced the Northern invaders, twice.- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
where they didn't.- Shiloh, Tennessee
where the battle took its name from the local Baptist church.- Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The surrender in 1863 of "the Strong-hold of the Confederates" greatly distressed Mary.