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Warren Bidwell. 2. Burton \\. married
Lizzie Case, and they have six children:
Amy Luella, Richard Burton, Mortimer
Robert, Edward Raymond, Russell An-
Bon, and Elizabeth Coe Bristol. 3. Mortimer
Lucius, was educated at the Maine
State College, and subsequently was superintendent
of Colt's Fire Arms Com-
pany, of Hartford; he married Rosa Bill,
and died in 1917, leaving three children:
Grace, Clark, Ralph. 4. Anson Wheeler,
Jr., married Mae Smith, and is the father
Florence of five children :
Arthur, Herman 1
Smith, Stuart
larvey. Anson Wheeler.
3d, and Alice Phelps Bristol. 5. Helen,
married Samuel 1 >. Richardson, and is
the mother of four children: Danford
Ward, Pearl Bristol, Samuel Anson and
Helen Elizabeth Richardson. 6. Roscoe
C, married Louise Humphrey, and their
children are: Mildred Lydia, Sarah
Elizabeth, Marion Humphrey, and Edith
Louise Bristol. 7. Christa, married Har-
old William Humphrey; she died April
20, 1919, and was mother of a son, Har-
old William, Jr. 8. Sterling \\\, mar-
ried Ruth Codaire, and is the father of
one child, Robert Austin Bristol. 9.
( ttharine, married Myron L. Butler, and
is the mother of one child, Robert I Bris-
tol Butler. 10. Mary, became the wife
of George L. Bidwell, whose ancestry is
contained elsewhere in this work. The
family is associated with the Congrega-
tional church of Canton.
The Barbour family, of which Mr.
Bristol is a descendant, was founded in
this country by Thomas Barbour, who
came to Windsor in 1635, being then
twenty-one years of age. He arrived in
Xew England in the ship "Christian,"
March 16, 1634, with the Saltonstall party
under Francis Styles, and was a soldier of
the Pequot War. His wife. Jane, family
name unknown, whom he married on October
7, 1640, died September 10, 1662, and
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he died on the following day. Their third
son, Samuel Harbour, born October 1,
p ;'', in Windsor, resided on the paternal
homestead, and died March 17, [708. He
owned the halfwaj covenant at the Windsor
church. < ictobi-r [2, [671. He mar-
ried, December 1. [670, Mary Cozzen,
who died May [9, [676. Their second
son. Samuel I
'.arbour, born May 17. i'~.v
died about [725. He married, December
17, 171 _'. Sarah llolcomb, born in ifjQI,
daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Bliss)
Hoi. omb, "f Simsbury. Their second son,
Mr. Samuel Barbour, born 1714. lived in
that part of Simsbury which is now Canton,
where he died in 1707. He married
(second) Hannah Humphrey, born June
8, 1718, died 1819. daughter of Captain
Noah and Hannah (Case) Humphrey, of
Canton, granddaughter of Lieutenant
Samuel Humphrey, great-granddaughter
of Michael Humphrey, founder of the
family in Windsor. Her youngest child.
Giles Barbour, born 1769, lived in Canton,
and married Mary (iarrett, who died in
iS'M at the age of eighty-four years.
Their daughter, Mary, became the wife of
Noah R. L. Bristol, of Canton, as previously
noted.
DANIELSON, Joseph,
Minister *f the Goipel.
Arms— Argent, a bend sable.
To understand the meaning to a man
of the honor of his family—to know the
general status in a democracy of fam-
ilies of old and honorable lineage, is to
know and understand the meaning and
brightness of the national honor. For
this can never be any brighter than the
honor of the family. This statement is
nowhere more clearly and conclusively
proved than in the Roman civilization, in
which the dominant unit was the fam-