Samuel ⁶ BIGELOW

Streetsboro Cemetery, Streetsboro Twp., Portage co, Ohio)

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)."

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