Abraham ⁷ BIGELOW

15591.36 Abraham ⁷ BIGELOW, son of Isaac ⁶ ( William ⁵, Josiah ⁴, Thomas ³, Samuel ², John ¹) and Fanny (JACKSON) BIGELOW, was born at Natick, Middlesex, MA on 19 May 1810. He married Mary Brown Whitney the daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Brown) Whitney, on 06 March 1831. Mary was born on 18 March 1813 at Dorchester, MA. Abraham was a farmer and fruit grower. This family resided in Natick several years and then moved to Sherborn - still later to Dover, MA where he died on 04 August 1888 a widower. His wife had died at Dover on 09 December 1881. "Their children were all very large people, averaging well over 200 pounds each".

Children of Abraham and Mary (Whitney) Bigelow, all but two youngest born in Natick:

15591.361 Charles, b 24 June 1831; d 08 Oct 1831.

15591.362 George Henry, b 15 Oct 1832; d 1894 Dover; m 25 May l867 Georgianna A. Ellis, daughter of Oliver and Hannah (Johnson) Ellis, b 23 Feb 1842 Gilmanton, NH. She d_____1904 Natick; no children.

15591.363t Edward Barton, b 10 Dec 1833; d_____1908; m (1) Frances M. Whiting; (2) 24 Dec 1882 Ellen Rebecca Gould; 1 child.

15591.364 Sarah Griffin, b 06 Nov 1835; living 1917 Medfield, MA; m 23 Dec 1853 John Worthington Shumway who d 13 Aug 1889; no children.

15591.365t Mary Frances, b 15 Jan 1838; d 20 Nov 1908 Medfield; m 16 April 1857 Francis Eliphalet Mason; 1 child.

15591.366t Abraham jr., b 17 Aug 1839; d 03 Aug 1914 Wellesley, MA; m (1)09 July 1867 Lydia Ann (Higgins) Sears, (2) 11 June 1879 Mrs. Lucinda Ingram; 1 known child.

15591.367 Martha Allen, b 07 March 1841 Sherbom, MA; d 12 Oct 1841.

15591.368 Chester Adams, b 03 Aug l844 Sherborn; d 03 Mar 1915 Wellesley, MA; m Ol Nov 1868 Dover. MA Emma Elisa Howe,dgtr.of Albion and Eliza (Brown) Howe, b 07 Feb 1847 Dover; res. Wellesley; he served Co. H., 13th Regt. MA. Vols., with brother; no children.
(see below)

CHESTER A. BIGELOW, Musician, Age 18
Company H., Thirteenth Infantry
Massachusetts Volunteers
Entered for three years service on February 24, 1862
Transferred on July 14, 1864 to Company I, Thirty-ninth Regiment
Taken prisoner at Second Bull Run, exchanged the following January
Again taken prisoner at Gettysburg July 1, 1863

Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 117;
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol I ;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Genealogical History of Dover, MA., by Frank Smith, pub. 1917.

Rod Bigelow (Roger Jon¹² BIGELOW)

Box 13 Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929

rodbigelow@netzero.net

BACK TO THE BIGELOW SOCIETY PAGE

BACK TO BIGELOW HOME PAGE

Abraham 7 BIGELOW

Abraham ⁷ BIGELOW