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OBITUARY OF CHESLEY BRISTOW
The Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel
Thursday, 25 September 1845
DIED
   At his residence near Crawfordville, at 12 o’clock on the night of the
   21st inst., CHESLEY BRISTOW, Esq., in the 57th years of his age.
   The deceased was clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts of the
   County; the duties of which offices he had discharged for a number of
   years, and the successive re-elections to the same with which he was
   honored was the best evidence that he never lost the confidence of the
   public he served.  He was a man of warm heart, ardent feelings, strong
   attachments, generous nature, and strict integrity—plain in his habits,
   frank in his manners, honest, upright and just in his dealings and
   intercourse with his fellow men, he seldom failed to gain the good will
   of all who knew him—and the intelligence of his death will be a source
   of deep regret to his extensive acquaintances and numerous friends,
   while it has made a void in the immediate circle in which he enjoyed
   which can never again be filled.
   His disease had its origin in billions disorder but terminated in
   dropsical effusion; and his sufferings though severe were borne with
   much fortitude and great resignation.  Death to him seemed to bring no
   terror or alarm—but at the appointed hour he yielded his unreluctant
   spirit without a murmur or a struggle, and gently and quietly, as if
   only sleeping, gradually sunk into natures last long and profound
   repose.
   A kind father and an affectionate husband, he has left a dependent widow
   and a large and interesting family of children to mourn his loss—but in
   their afflicting bereavement, they are not without the consolation
   afforded by the unaffected sympathies and tenderest condolence of all
   those who best knew him who to them was most dear.
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**TRANSCRIBER NOTE:**
   Chesley Bristow was born 31 Oct. 1787 in Marlboro Co., S.C., son of John
   & Susannah (Parish) Bristow.  He was married 22 September 1812 to Martha
   “Patsy” Harris, probably in Greene Co.  (The marriage record has not
   been found and came from Bristow family records.)  Chesley was Clerk of
   the Superior Court of Taliaferro Co., GA from 1832 up to the time of his
   death.
   Alexander H. Stephens wrote in his diary:  “. . . Chesley Bristow, the
   old clerk who made out my license and who was one of my best friends,
   lived until 1845, when he too passed away. . . .”
   Chesley was buried in Bethany Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greene Co.,
   GA, but his tombstone has not been found.
(SOURCES:  1820 Census, Greene Co., GA; 1830-1840 Census, Taliaferro Co.,
GA; Obituary;  Family Bible of John Bristow of Marlboro Co., SC;  John
Bristow of Middlesex Co.,VA, by Gordon Byron Wooley}