Mary Beckley Bristow

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Location of material (Items with no location specified may be found in most well-stocked libraries.):

FHL       Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City. Filmed items are available on loan to local Family History Centers for a modest charge.

KCPL     Kenton County Public Library, Covington.

KDLA   Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort.

KHS       Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.

UKL       Margaret I. King Library of the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

UKL(S) Special Collections at Margaret I. King Library.

UMC       Missouri State Historical Society, University of Missouri, Columbia.

LoC       The Library of Congress, Washington.

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Public records: Though most of the more frequently consulted local records (wills, marriages, etc.) have been filmed (and are available at KHS, UKL(S), KDLA or FHL), many others have not. Original court records are at: Burlington (Boone County), Paris (Bourbon County), Newport (Campbell County), Winchester (Clark County), Lexington (Fayette County), Covington and Independence (Kenton County).
Abstracts include:

• Worrel, Stephen W. Campbell County, Kentucky, Marriages 1795-1850. Falls Church, VA: [author], 1992.
• Worrel, Stephen W., and Ann Fitzgerald. Boone County, Kentucky, Marriages, 1798-1850. Falls Church, VA: [author], 1991.
• Fragmentary Vital Statistics returns (births and deaths) for the 1850s can be found at FHL, KDLA and (indexed) at KHS. Covington Health Department death reports from 1890 are at KCPL.

Contemporary letters and diaries:

• Bristow, Mary Beckley. KCPL, UKL(S), FHL (part). Originals held by family.
• Loder, L. A. Diary. Excerpts for Civil War period in Fitzgerald, William A., Boone County in the Civil War. FHL.
• Reynolds, Charles Dent. Incidents and Reminiscensces of the Life of C. D. Reynolds from Boyhood to Old Age Beginning at his Earliest Recollections, 1893. Transcript at Orange County [Virginia] Historical Society.
• Stephens, Ruth Douglass, ed. Stephens Family Letters and Documents. Fair Lawn, NJ: [editor], 1987. KHS; originals at Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO.

Travelers' descriptions often give a fresh view.

• Coombs, Edith I., ed. America Visited. New York: Book League of America, n.d. Contains excerpts from notable contemporary accounts, including Dickens.
  Two original and perceptive (and often entertaining) sources are:
• Trollope, Anthony. North America (ed. Donald Smalley and Bradford Allen Booth). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
• Trollope, Mrs [Frances]. Domestic Manners of the Americans. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901.

Bible and cemetery records: Compilations of Kentucky DAR Bible and Cemetery Records are at KHS, FHL. Some have been published, a small fraction indexed. Some are also in Kentucky Ancestors, and other periodicals. Consult PERSI. (Easy-to-use CD-ROMS have replaced the old hard-copy volumes.)

Census records: Films of the population schedules are readily available. Those from 1850 on list individuals by name. Often overlooked are specialized schedules for agriculture and slaves. These are available only at branches of the National Archives and at KDLA. A broader picture is found in the official reports:

• House of Representatives. Report of the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852. Washington, DC: Robert Armstrong, 1853.
• DeBow, J. D. B., Superintendent of the U. S. Census. Statistical View of the United States. Washington, DC: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854.
• Kennedy, Joseph C. G., Superintendent. Agriculture of the United States in 1860. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864.
• ——. Preliminary Report of the Eighth Census, 1860. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1862.

Historical summaries of an amazing variety of information are in:

• U.S. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975.

Newspapers: There is no central depository for all Kentucky newspapers. The most complete collection is at UKL. KDLA and KCPL also have sizable holdings. Missouri papers are gathered at UMC. An on-line index to Covington area and Cincinnati papers is at KCPL. Useful published abstracts and indexes include:

• Clift, G. Glenn, comp. Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 1938-1940. Baltimore: Genealogical Printing, 1978.
• ——. Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 1941-1943. Baltimore: Genealogical Printing , 1977
• Green, Karen Mauer, comp. The Kentucky Gazette: Genealogical and Historical Abstracts. v. 1 1787-1800, v. 2 1801-1820. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1983, 1985.
• Herbert, Jeffrey G., indexer. Index of Death and Marriage Notices Appearing in the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1827-1881, 2 parts. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.

Maps:

• U.S. Geological Survey maps can be found at KHS and KCPL.
• Atlas of Boone, Kenton & Campbell Counties, Kentucky. Philadelphia: D. J. Lake & Co., 1883.
• Rennick, Robert M. Kentucky Place Names. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
• The Geographic Names Information System at Yale University is an excellent online index.

Chronologies and general background:

• Carruth, Gorton, ed. Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates, eighth edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
• Mattfield, Julius. Variety Music Cavalcade: a Musical Historical Review, 1620-1969, third edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971. More than its title implies, it is a comprehensive list of cultural and social events.
• Morris, Richard B., ed. Encyclopedia of American History, revised and enlarged edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961.

Social history: An overview can be found in the Everyday Life in America Series, especially:

• Larkin, Jack. The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840. New York: Harper & Row, 1988; and
• Sutherland, David E. The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Education:

• Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Disease:

• Karlen, Arno. Man and Microbes: Diseases and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. The author provides historical perspective.
• Baird, Nancy D. "Asiatic cholera's first visit to Kentucky: a study in panic" in The Filson Club History Quarterly 48:228-240.
• Chambers, John S. The Conquest of Cholera. New York: Macmillan, 1938.

Agriculture: Sadly, there is no comprehensive history of farming in Kentucky.

• Clark, Thomas D. Agrarian Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1977.
• Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 v. New York: P. Smith, 1941 [Reprint 1958].
• Schlebecker, John T. Whereby we Thrive: a History of American Farming, 1607-1972. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1975.
• Clotfelter, Elizabeth Ritter. Agricultural History of Bourbon County, Kentucky prior to 1900. Master's thesis, University of Kentucky, 1953.

Religion:

• Bedell, George C., et al. Religion in America. New York: Macmillan, 1975.
• Boles, John B. The Great Revival, 1787-1805: the Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972.
• Hudson, Winthrop S. Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American Religious Life, third edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.
• Noe, Mary Belle [Bristow]. 100 Year History of Union Baptist Church, 1887-1987. KHS, FHL.
• Nowlin, William Dudley. Kentucky Baptist History 1790-1922. [Louisville]: Baptist Book Concern, 1922.
• Ryland, Garnett. Baptists of Virginia: 1699-1926. Richmond, VA: Virginia Board of Missions and Education, 1955.
• Semple, Robert Baylor. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia. (Revised and extended by G. W. Beale). Richmond, VA: Pitt & Dickinson, 1894.
• Snay, Mitchell. Gospel of Disunion: Religion and separatism in the antebellum South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Spencer, John H. A History of Kentucky Baptists from 1769 to 1885, (Revised and corrected by Mrs. Burilla Spencer), 2 v. Cincinnati: J. R. Baumes, 1886. KHS, FHL.

Kentucky:

• Adjutant General of Kentucky. Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812. [New title]. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1969 [1891].
• Brandon, Edgar Ewing. A Pilgrimage of Liberty: a contemporary account of the triumphal tour of General Lafayette through the southern and western states in 1825, as reported by the local newspapers. Athens, OH: Lawhead Press, 1944.
• Clark, Thomas D. A History of Kentucky. New York: Prentice Hall, 1937.
• Clift, G. Glenn. Remember the Raisin! Kentucky and Kentuckians in the Battles and Massacre at Frenchtown, Michigan Territory, in the War of 1812. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1964.
• Coleman, J. Winston, Jr. Famous Kentucky Duels. Lexington, KY: Henry Clay Press, 1969.
• Collins, Lewis, and Richard H.Collins. History of Kentucky. Berea, KY: Kentucke Imprints, 1978 [1874].
• Fowler, Ida Earle. "Log of Lafayette's Journey" in KHS Register 27:652.
• Ireland, Robert M. County Courts in Antebellum Kentucky. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1972.
• Karan, P. P., and Cotton Mather. Atlas of Kentucky. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1977.
• Perrin, W. H. History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky. Cincinnati: Guild Reprints, 1968 [1882].
• Perrin, W. H., et al., eds. History of Kentucky, Illustrated, nine regional editions. Easly, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1979 [1887].
• Smith, Allen Webb. Beginning at the Point. Park Hills, KY: [author], 1977. KCPL.
• Yealey, Professor A. M. History of Boone County, Kentucky. Covington, KY: William Fitzgerald (Holmes High School Printing Class), 1960. KCPL A compilation of newspaper articles. No comprehensive history of Boone County yet exists.
• Papers of the Christopher Gist Historical Society. Various dates. KCPL.

Missouri:

• Hurt, R. Douglas. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1992.
• Marshall, Howard Wight. Folk Architecture in Little Dixie: a Regional Culture in Missouri. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1981.
• Parrish, William E. History of Missouri: the Missouri Sesquicentennial Edition. v. 3. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1973.

Slavery:

• Coleman, J. Winston, Jr. Slavery Times in Kentucky. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1940 [Reprint 1970].
• Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Harrison, Lowell H. The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1978.
• Tanner, Paul. "Slavery in Boone County, Kentucky (And its Aftermath)", 1986. Available as a .pdf document from Boone County Public Library.

Civil War:

An indispensable reference to the Civil War period is:

• Long, E. B., with Barbara Long. The Civil War Day by Day, an Almanac, 1861-1865. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

Pertinent information on Kentucky Rebel soldiers can be found in:

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers. (Kentucky), and the Consolidated Index. KHS, KDLA, FHL, National Archives.
• Harris, Abner, comp. Report of the Adjutant General of Kentucky: Confederate Volunteers. Frankfort: State of Kentucky, 1912.

Other sources include:

• Duke, Basil Wilson. A History of Morgan's Cavalry (ed. Cecil Fletcher Holland). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1960 [1867].
• Fellman, Michael. Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Fitzgerald, William A., ed. Boone County in the Civil War. A collection of primary and secondary sources. FHL.
• Harrison, Lowell H. The Civil War in Kentucky. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1975.
• Hesseltine, William Best. Civil War Prisons: a Study in War Psychology. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1978 [1930].
• Horwitz, Lester V. The Longest Raid of the Civil War. Cincinnati, OH: Farmcourt Press, 1998.
• Knauss, William H. The Story of Camp Chase: a History of the Prison. Columbus, OH: The General's Books, 1990 [1906]
• McDonough, James L. War in Kentucky: from Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
• Parrish, William E. Turbulent Partnership: Missouri and the Union, 1861-1865. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1963.
• Ramage, James A. Rebel Raider: the Life of General John Hunt Morgan. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
• Rouse, Jack. The Civil War in Boone County, Kentucky. A compiled list of soldiers from Boone County who fought in the various comapnies both North and South. Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, 1996. Available as .pdf file from Boone County Public Library
• Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997.
• Walker, Gary C. The War in Southwest Virginia, 1861-1865, fourth edition, revised. Roanoke, VA: A & W Enterprise, 1965.
• Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb: the Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978 [1943].

Genealogies of the principal families mentioned in the Record include:

Bristow:

• Walton, John. "Politicians and Statesmen: the Bristows in American Government" in Genealogies of Kentucky Families from the Filson Club History Quarterly. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 68-89.
• Woolley, Gordon Byron. John Bristow of Middlesex and His Descendants through Ten Generations. New York: Vantage, 1969. KHS.

Cleek: Cleek, George W. Early Western Augusta Pioneers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1993 [1957].

Stephens:

• Ryle, Herbert E. Antecedents and Descendants of Benjamin Stephens of Orange County, Virginia. Upper Marlboro, MD: [author], 1970. KHS.
• ——. The Stephens/Ryle Book. Upper Marlboro, MD: [author], 1987.

Periodicals:

• Bluegrass Roots, Kentucky Genealogical Society, Frankfort.
• The Filson Club History Quarterly, Filson Club, Louisville.
• Kentucky Ancestors, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
• The Register, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.

 

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