Hamilton Miller 8 BIGELOW


Summit Cemetery; Williamston, Ingham County, MI


15198.134    Hamilton Miller 8 BIGELOW, son of Jotham 7 ( Abel 6 , Josiah 5 , Jotham 4, John 3, Samuel 2, John 1) and Esther Susan (MONTAGUE) BIGELOW, was born 07 October 1846 at Franklin, Oakland, MI. He served in the Civil War in Co. A, 5th MI Cav.(see below) at Gettysburg, Boonesboro, Hagerstown, Williamsport, Falling Water and South Mountain. After the war, he married Susan Adeline Drake on 13 February 1866/67. His obituary says marriage was on 13 January 1870. He was a carpenter, farmer and gristmill/sawmill operator and died at Williamston, Ingham, MI on 09 December 1914. His widow died there on 11 October 1918. Both are buried in Summit cemetery, Williamston. (see below)
Records state he had three children, but we have limited data on only one child of Hamilton and Susan (Drake) Bigelow:
 
15198.1341     Carl (Carlos) S., b 08 Jan 1870 MI; d 30 Nov 1915 (aged 45) Williamston; m (1) Mary Louise ____ (1866-1955 (aged 88–89)); (see below)
 
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy
Vol II , p 335;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Portrait & Biographic Album of Ingham & Livingston Counties
, MI, pub. 1891.
Find a Grave
From: Michigan Volunteers 1861 -1865:
     Bigelow, Hamilton M., Farmington. Enlisted in Co. A, 5th MI Cavalry Aug. 19, 1862, at Franklin, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Aug. 26, 1862. Bugler Oct. 1862. Musterd out at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, June 22, 1865. Present residence, Williamston, Michigan.


Summit Cemetery; Williamston, Ingram County, MI

  

Carl S. and Mary Louise Bigelow;
Summit Cemetery; Williamston, Ingram County, MI

Rod Bigelow
Box  Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
rodbigelow@netzero.net
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