Children of Samuel and Phebe (Minard) Bigelow all born Salisbury, Litchfield co, CT: ( in Howe)
12169.41t Augustus S., (Samuel Augustus), b 14 July 1812; d 24 August 1871 Kent, Portage co, OH; m 20 Jan 1840 Martha Hurlburt; 6 children;
12169.42 Lorenzo, b ca 1813; d before 11 Oct 1862; note
12169.43t Mary Ann, b ca 1816; d 1879 (aged 62–63) ; m 23 Nov 1840 Robert Smith (b 1816- d 13 Feb 1864, age 48); res Streetsboro Twp, OH; 7 children;
12169.44 Henry, b ca 1818; d before 11 Oct 1862; note
12169.45t James H., b 28 Feb 1821; d after 1890; m 12 Sept 1847 Sarah Ann Webb (1827-1916); at least 2 children;
12169.46t Horace Minard, b 24 Jan 1824 (1821?); d 06 June 1893; m (1) 15 Apr 1846 Mary Coup (Coop?); m (2) 19 Mar 1857 Sarah Jane Michaels; 8 children;
12169.47 Hiram L., b ca 1826; d 26 Aug 1827 Salisbury, CT (buried there in Town Hill cemetery); note
12169.48t Harriet, ca 1829; d ____ Port Huron, MI?; m 06 June 1849 Thomas Kimes;
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. I page ;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America, page
475,
Howe, Bigelow Family of America, page 160, son of Samuel 5;
Barbour, Families of Early Hartford;
note: Forge "The Bigelow Society
Quarterly, 17 (2): 27, 30; April 1988);
Hiram (12169.47) letter dated 20 April 2004 from Richard Hale
Zimmerman ../rod2008a/zimmer07.htm
New Note 08/14/06:
From: Pamela Klein < carpediem@manabeads.com
> and
Richard H. Zimmerman < rhz1415@starpower.net
>
Samuel ( ), Bigelow, son of _____________ Bigelow and Mary
(Lyman) Bigelow, was born
In a letter from Richard Hale Zimmerman, 507
Leighton Ave., Silver Spring, Maryland 20901-4825, dated 20 Apr
2004:
"Samuel Bigelow was born in Connecticut, possibly Hartford, at
some
point between 1775 and 1800. He is mentioned in G. B.
Howe's
work, "Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America"
page 475;
in which the information was supplied by his grandson, George E.
Bigelow
of Lincon, Neb.
In this account, Samuel was supposed to have been born in 1776
Hartford, his father died soon after and his mother, Mary Lyman
Bigelow, then married a man named Conn. Dick Zimmerman was
unable to confirm any of this in his 13 March 2004 letter.
U. S. Census records for 1810 through 1840 recorded only a range
of years for those enumerated and from these one can deduce a
birth date for Samuel anytime between 1775 and 1800. Census
records for 1850 (age 65) and 1860 (age 75) indicate a birth date
in the latter half of 1784 or the first half of 1785. His
tombstone seen in July 2003 indicates that he died 23 December
1863 at age 81, indicating a birth date in 1782.
"...Census records show that he lived in Salisbury,
Litchfield County, Connecticut in 1810, 1820, 1830 after which he
is recorded in Streetsboro Township, Portage County, Ohio.
Pat Bigelow indicated that he moved to Streetsboro in 1833
("Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly"
17(2):27,30;1988) In Salisbury, he married Phebe Minard
(born 20 October 1793 in Salisbury) about 1809 "Forge, same
ref". All eight of their children were born there and the
seventh, Hiram L., died when about a year old and is buried at
Town Hill Cemetery, Salisbury.
"...Portage County in northeastern Ohio is part of
the
Western Reserve of Connecticut, also called New Connecticut, and
this entire
region had many early settlers from Connecticut ("Harlan Hatcher,
The Western Reserve; The Story of New Connecticut in Ohio,
Bobbs-Merrill 1949). The first settlers arrived in
Streetsboro in 1822, although the Township itself did not become
independent of the adjoining townships until 1827.
"Phebe Minard Bigelow died 18 July 1849 at the age of
56 years, 6 months (source: tombstone, Streetsboro Cemetery,
Streetsboro Twp., Portage Co., Ohio). In 1850, Samuel was
recorded on the U.S. Census with the family of his daughter and
son-in-law, Mary and Robert Smith. He married 4 November
1850 Elizabeth R. Bow (born about 1798), who apparently survived
him. He died 23 December 1863 and was buried in Streetsboro
(source: U.S. Census 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860; Early
Marriage
Bonds of Ohio - Portage Co.; Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly,
17(2):27,30;1988; family group sheet from Patricia Bigelow;
tombstone, Streetsboro Cemetery, Streetsboro Twp., Portage Co.,
Ohio)."