Jesse Waters 7 BIGELOW
15349.83 Jesse Waters 7
BIGELOW, son of Jesse 6
( Thomas 5 ( Jedediah 4, Samuel 3, Samuel 2, John 1) and Huldah (WATERS)
BIGELOW, was born at Oxford, Worcester, MA on 27 November 1821. He was
a self-made man, though reared on a farm and under the most adverse circumstances,
he early showed a natural genius for mechanics. He was a wheelwright by trade;
removed about 1848 to Brookfield, MA where he was a foreman for a contractor
and on the point of starting in business for himself when he met with a fatal
accident in setting in motion a large factory wheel he had just completed
and died in Brookfield the next day, 13 January 1852. He had earlier married,
at Eastford, CT 26 October 1846 Joanna Watson. She was the daughter of Henry
and Azubah (Howe) Watson and born 11 November 1822 at Ashford, CT. After the
death of Jesse, she married Nathaniel Snow on 18 March 1858.
Child of Jesse W. and Joanna (Watson) Bigelow:
15349.831 Mary Jane, b 16 Aug 1850 Brookfield,
MA; m 16 April 1870 Alfred F. Douty; 3 children (see below).
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 102;
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol I ;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
vital records obtained by Bigelow Society historian/genealogist.
From: The Spencer Leader
22 April 1921; page 4;
Douty Golden Anniversary
Thanks to "Leah" < family-history@cox.net >
Modified - 02/21/2008
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