John 6 BIGELOW
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16A43.5 John 6 BIGELOW,
son of Moses
5(
Moses
4
, Ebenezer
3,
Joshua2,
John1),
and
___ (WING) BIGELOW, was born 15 June 1813 Steadham, Upper Canada;
(circa 1809-1814 in Vermont (varying ages given on censuses)). As a
youth he lived in New York state, and there married, circa 1835, (1) Eliza
Davis, who was born circa 1820 in England. Before 1840 they moved to Ypsilanti,
Washtenaw county, MI, where the family was ennumerated in 1840. By 1850
he was in Calhoun county, near Battle Creek, but before 1866 moved to Big
Rapids, Mecosta County. There on a small stream on the southeast edge of
the community, he established both a sawmill and a flouring mill. The latter
was well-known in its time. John's wife Eliza died between 1866 and 1869.
Before 1873 he married (2)Lucetta Decker. John retired in the 1880's to
Grand Rapids, Kent county MI after selling his many timber holdings and
the mill, the transactions of which are recorded in Mecosta county. He
died in Grand Rapids 12 March 1898, and is buried at Highland View cemetery,
Big Rapids. We have no data on the second wife.
In the 1880's John Bigelow corresponded with
Gilman B. Howe, the Bigelow genealogist, and wrote in part: "My
grandfather's name was Moses, what his brothers' names were I don't
know...My father's name was Moses..My father's brother was Levi, and my
father lived with a man by the name of Arnold in Providence, RI, after
his father was killed at Quebec."
Note:
research of Alan E. Bigelow, Las Vegas, NV.
Email: bigaled53@aol.com
Modified - 07/29/2003
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Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
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