Benjamin David ⁸ BIGELOW

1592C.141 Benjamin David ⁸ BIGELOW, son of David ⁷ ( Ebenezer ⁶ , Amasa ⁵, Isaac ⁴, Isaac ³, Samuel ², John¹) and Martha (WEAVER) BIGELOW (see link), was born in
Kingsport, Nova Scotia, Canada 18 January 1835. Benjamin died 1901 in Lake County, CA, at 66 years of age. He married Prudence Ruth COX in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, Canada ?, abt 1860.
Prudence was born in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, probably 18 October 1841. Prudence died after 13 June 1900 in CA, at approximately 58 years of age. Prudence immigrated, 1870. Destination: Seattle, WA.
She resided in Berkeley, Alameda co, CA 13 June 1900, 1941 Berkeley Way.
Benjamin immigrated, 1868. Destination: Seattle, WA. He petitioned the court to become a citizen in Seattle, WA, 1876.
Benjamin's occupation: Ship Builder in Canada and Seattle, WA ?, before 1888. Benjamin was listed as the head of a family on
the 1900 Census in Berkeley, Alameda co, CA. He resided in Berkeley, Alameda co, CA 13 June 1900, 1941 Berkeley
Way. Name shown as David B.[Benjamin] Bigelow on the 1900 Federal Census, but shown as Benjamin David in the Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol 2.

Benjamin David BIGELOW and Prudence Ruth COX had the following children:

1592C.1411 Luzana Ruth (Mae?) ⁹ BIGELOW, b 27 Jan 1862; d 22 July 1953; m William C. DUDLEY.

1592C.1412 Jonathan (John?) Edwin ⁹ BIGELOW, b 1 Jan 1866 Medford, NS; d 20 Apr 1953; married and at least 2 sons Roy Bigelow; and Benjamin Fairchild Bigelow (also see below) .

1592C.1413 Mary Blanche ⁹ BIGELOW was born 12 Jan 1868 Medford,, NS; d ____ ; m Walter ANDERSON.

1592C.1414 Emma Daisy ⁹ BIGELOW was born 21 May 1874; d 18 Feb 1953; m Chester REED.

Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg ;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
family records of descendants.

New Note from Larry Baxter:
Larry Baxter <larrybaxter@ns.sympatico.ca>
Descendants of Bigelow Benjamin D(12 April 104)

A : Benjamin D Bigelow, born in Kingsport NS the 18 January 1835, died in Berkeley CA, married Prudence Ruth Cox, the 2 March 1860 in Cornwallis NS
(born the 16 October 1842 in Cornwallis NS and died the 16 August 1919 in Oakland Alameda Co CA).
(Notes : L Baxter says Benjamin has different parents - Ebenezer and Olivia. Isaac Bigelow witnessed marriage #179.)
He had 4 children :
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B.1 : Luzana Ruth Bigelow, born the 27 January 1862, died 22 July 1953, married William Dudley.
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B.2 : Jonathan Edwin Bigelow, born in Oak Point (Medford) the 1 January 1866, died 20 Apr 1953.
(Notes : L Baxter says Jonathan had one child, Roy.)
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B.3 : Mary Blanche Bigelow, born in Cornwallis NS the 12 January 1868, married Walter Anderson.
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B.4 : Emma Bigelow, born the 21 May 1874, died the 18 February 1953, married Chester Reed.
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However, I had another Benjamin D. who was the s/o Justus(7) Bigelow and
Olivia Cox., third attachment .....D (8).txt. He has a doubtful daughter
listed who is listed in Irene's listing.
When I started gathering information 27 years ago, I did not keep a very
good trail of documentation, so my listings are a mix and match of many
different sources of varying credibility. Irene was much more meticulous.
If you could resolve this for me, I would be grateful.
As well, I would be pleased to receive electronically any descendants
who are also descendants of a Nova Scotia Bigelow connection.
Larry

New Note:
Name: Allen Jess
E-Mail: < aljess@shaw.ca >
Date: 2004-04-09-07:52

Good Morning, Rod,
I am researching the descendants of George JESS, Sr. and Louise Catherine 'Lisette' PAYZANT. That of course brings me into the Weaver and Bigelow families...descendants from the first generation
of seven children. On page 284-5, the descendants of Martha JESS and Benjamin WEAVER are listed. However, I need your help, please. The four children for Benjamin BIGELOW and Ruth COX
in the Payzant-Jess-Juhan book are not the same as listed in http://bigelowsociety.com
If you can help me on this I would appreciate it. I am also researching the Payzant descendants as well.
At the Jess-Payzant family reunion at Port Williams 18-19-20 July 2003, I presented my research of the Jess family of North Kingstown, RI, Falmouth, NS, and Scott's Bay, NS. If you wish I can e-mail
it to you. As my research of the Jess family progresses, I place a copy in the Kings County Museum. So far, I have submitted two editions. The third one may be ready by June 2004.
Allen Jess
Sherwood Park, AB
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Researching these families ...
Jess ... Scott's Bay, NS
Payzant ... Falmouth, NS
Fuller .......... Avonport, NS
Russell ... Clam Harbour, NS
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Children listed above from Bigelow Society database.............ROD 04/11/04
Note:
Name: William A. Barnett
E-Mail: memobarn@napanet.net
Homepage Title: Best of Two Worlds
Homepage URL: http://www.napanet.net/~memobarn/
Location: Napa, CA
This is my first visit to your site, and it looks very interesting! I have 28 genealogy reports at my home page, including the descendants of John Bigelow of Watertown, MA. I am not a direct descendant of
John Bigelow (Biglo), but my step grandfather was John Edwin Bigelow, b. Nova Scotia, d. 1932 in Kensington, Contra Costa co, CA.
John Edwin ⁹ Bigelow (Benjamin David ⁸, David ⁷ , Ebenezer ⁶ , Amasa ⁵, Isaac ⁴, Isaac ³, Samuel ², John¹). As John Edwin Bigelow was the only father my mother ever knew, I added the Bigelow
line to my genealogy reports. Thanks for your efforts.
http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/williambarnett/BIGELOW/d0/i0002336.htm#s7

62. Benjamin David 8 BIGELOW ( David 7,Ebenezer ⁶ , Amasa ⁵, Isaac ⁴, Isaac ³, Samuel ², John¹) was born in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, Canada 18 Jan 1835. Benjamin died 1901 in
Lake County, CA, at 66 years of age.
He married Prudence Ruth COX in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, Canada ?, abt 1860. Prudence was born in Kingsport, Nova
Scotia, probably 18 Oct 1841. Prudence died after 13 June 1900 in CA, at approximately 58 years of age. Prudence immigrated, 1870. Destination: Seattle, WA. She resided in
Berkeley, Alameda co, CA 13 June 1900, 1941 Berkeley Way.
Benjamin immigrated, 1868. Destination: Seattle, WA. He petitioned the court to become a citizen in Seattle, WA, 1876.
Benjamin's occupation: Ship Builder in Canada and Seattle, WA ?, before 1888. Benjamin was listed as the head of a family on
the 1900 Census in Berkeley, Alameda co, CA. He resided in Berkeley, Alameda co, CA 13 Jun 1900, 1941 Berkeley
Way. Name shown as David B.[Benjamin] Bigelow on the 1900 Federal Census, but shown as Benjamin David in the Bigelow
Family Genealogy, Vol 2.

Benjamin David BIGELOW and Prudence Ruth COX had the following children:

+ 69 i. Mae ⁹ BIGELOW was born on (birth date unknown).

+ 70 ii. David ⁹ BIGELOW was born Aug 1863.

+ 71 iii. John Edwin ⁹ BIGELOW was born 1 Jan 1868.

+ 72 iv. Emma Daisy ⁹ BIGELOW was born 21 May 1874.

71. John (Jonathan?) Edwin ⁹ BIGELOW (Benjamin David ⁸, ( David ⁷, Ebenezer ⁶ , Amasa ⁵, Isaac ⁴, Isaac ³, Samuel ², John¹) was born in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, Canada
on 1 Jan 1868.
John died 23 May 1932 in Kensington, Contra Costa co, CA, at 64 years of age. His body was interred May 1932 in Mountain View, Cem, Oakland, Alameda co, CA.
He married twice. He married Ethel FAIRCHILD in Colorado ?, about 1899. Ethel was born in Colorado Apr 1880.
(Additional notes for Ethel FAIRCHILD) Ethel died 15 Oct 1903 in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA, at 23 years of age. Her
body was interred Oct 1903 in Oakland, Alameda Co, CA, Mountain View Mem. Park. Ethel was listed as the head of a
family on the 1900 Census in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA. She resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 13 Jun 1900, 1941
Berkeley Way. He married Lena Luella TABER in San Francisco, San Francisco Co, CA, 31 Oct 1906. Lena was born in Santa Clara, Santa Clara Co, CA on 3 Sep 1874. Lena(13) was the daughter of
Orrin TABER Sr. and Calista Anne BARKER. Lena died 27 May 1958 in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA, at 83 years of age. Her body was interred abt 28 May 1958 in Colma, San Mateo Co, CA,
Cypress Lawn Cemetery.(14) She resided in Oakland, Alameda Co, CA bef 21 Apr 1898, 533 Hobart Street. She resided in Washington, DC 9 Feb 1899. She resided in San Francisco, San Francisco Co,
CA bef 29 Aug 1904. Lena was divorced from Ural Sumner (Fred) Hughes in San Francisco, San Francisco Co, CA, abt 1905. She resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 14 Jan 1920, 2336 Ward Street.
She resided in Kensington, Contra Costa Co, CA 1928, 150 Ardmore Road. She resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 1953, 1819 Tacoma Avenue. Biography of Lena Taber Hughes Bigelow, by the
compiler, her grandson, WAB:
Lena Taber was an identical twin to her sister, Lora. They were born in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, in 1874,
the fourth and fifth children of Orrin and Calista Taber. Their parents had come to Colma, San Mateo County, California in
June 1869, from their home in Manchester, New Hampshire, travelling by ship to the Isthmus of Panama, then by ship to San
Francisco. They brought with them their first two children, Charles age 3 1/2 years and Orrin Jr, only 10 months old. Lena's
father started the Guadalupe (in 1880 the Christopher) Diary in Colma, where in 1871 their third child, Samuel, was born. In
1872 the family moved to Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, where he engaged in farming. Here Lena and Lora
were born. In the Fall of 1875, the family moved again, to the nearby city of San Jose, also in Santa Clara County, where her
father opened an agricultural implement store for Frank Brothers of San Francisco. He was still in this business in 1881,
according to her father's biography in the History of Santa Clara published in that year. Sometime prior to 1894 the family
moved to Oakland, Alameda County, where, in 1898 Lena was married to Ural Sumner Hughes of Franklin, Venango County,
Pennsylvania. The marriage license shows him as "of Pennsylvania and a resident of Stent, Tuolumne Co, CA." They were
married in her father's home on Hobart Street in Oakland by Rev. August Peterson, Pastor of the Norwegian and Danish ME
Church of Oakland. Ural disliked his first name, and went by the name of Fred. He was apparently a minister at that time,
possibly a Methodist, but when, shortly after their marriage, they moved to Washington, DC, he was identified as a salesman.
The nespaper article describing their marriage, refers to him repeatedly as "Rev. Hughes". According to comments made by
Lena to the compiler, he was removed from his ministerial duties by the church for immoral conduct. In Washington, DC, 9
February 1899, their only child was born, Lorena Frances. When Lorena was very young, her father walked out on her
mother, leaving her destitute and, understandably, very bitter toward Lorena's father. Lena worked as a seamstress in their
home to provide income, and doing this work one day she accidently knocked over an oil lamp which ignited her clothing,
causing severe burns from her shoulders to her knees. Her husband's failure to come to her, even in these now even more dire
times, caused his family to come to her aid, and essentially disown their son. The Hughes family in Franklin, Pennsylvania,
provided the best of medical care to Lena and took in Lorena while her mother was hospitalized. In about 1900 the crippled
Lena and her young daughter travelled by train to Oakland, California, and lived with her father, who was then living in
Oakland. Lena was a very determined woman, and even though she had been told she would never walk again, with the
excellent physical therapy she received in Pennsylvania, she made a remarkable recovery, and walked very naturally the rest of
her life. Lena and Lorena moved with Lena's father to San Francisco in about 1901. Times were very difficult, because her
father was frequently on the road for long periods, and provided insufficient financial support. In a letter in the possession of the
compiler, she, in 1904, wrote a brother that she considered herself very fortunate when she ended the month with five cents! In
April, 1906, the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire destroyed the city. Lena, Lorena and Orrin's home was not
destroyed, but the family had to cook in the street, as no chimneys were to be used. Then the family was moved temporarily to
the Twin Peaks to camp. Lorena had vivid memories as a seven year old, of watching from Twin Peaks as San Francisco
burned below them. In October, 1906, only six months after the earthquake, Lena married John Bigelow in the quake ravaged
city and moved to Berkeley, across the bay in Alameda County. John Bigelow had two sons, Benjamin, age 6, and Roy, age 4.
John's first wife, Ethyl Fairchild Bigelow, died in 1903, when the boys were only 3 and 1 year old, respectively. Jack, as he
preferred to be called, was a good provider, and Lena, for the first time in her life, was without financial worries. It was a
difficult marriage in other ways, with Jack always showing favoritism to his own sons, to the detriment of Lena and Lorena. The
new Bigelow family lived in several homes in Berkeley, and for a five year period in Long Beach, Los Angeles County,
California, and also in Calistoga, Napa County. In about 1928 Jack and his two sons, who built homes in the Berkeley area
under the firm John E. Bigelow and Sons, built a home for the family in Kensington in the Berkeley hills. It is a magnificent
house with four bedrooms on two floors, a covered driveway, four car garage, five lawns, full basement, and a solarium with a
large balcony above with a beautiful view straight out the Golden Gate. In 1932 Jack Bigelow developed cancer and died.
Lena lived in the home alone until 1937 when her daughter, Lorena, recently widowed with two children, Carolyn, age 7 and
William, age 5, came to live with her. They remained in this home until, due to Lena's heart problems, in 1951, they sold the
home and moved to a home in North Berkeley on Tacoma Avenue. Lena died in 1958, and Lorena and her two children
continued to live in the home.
John immigrated, 1868. Destination: Seattle, WA. He petitioned the court to become a citizen in Seattle, WA ?, 1876. John
was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA. He resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co,
CA 13 Jun 1900, 1941 Berkeley Way. John was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census in Berkeley, Alameda Co,
CA. He resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 14 Jan 1920, 2336 Ward Street. John Edwin BIGELOW was employed before 1932, in Berkeley,
Alameda co, CA. The following biography of John E. Bigelow was written by the compiler, WAB:
John Edwin Bigelow was born in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, Canada, in January, 1868. Later that year, he and his parents
immigrated to the United States, and lived in the Seattle, Washington area. His sister, Emma, was born there in 1874, as,
perhaps, was his other sister, Mae. In 1876 his father, mother and he were naturalized as U.S. citizens. As he was only eight
years old, this was unusual, but the 1900 census states that was natualized in that year. In 1900 John, who became known as
Jack, is included with his family in the Federal Census, living on Berkeley Way in Berkeley, Alameda County, California. The
records are strange, with his father listed as David B. Bigelow, where he should have been listed as Benjamin David Bigelow.
Jack was already married (in about 1899) to Ethyl Fairchild of Colorado and they were living with his parents and their infant
son, Benjamin, born in January of 1900. Jack and Ethyl were, apparently, married in Colorado, and she died, in Berkeley,
giving birth to one of their children in October, 1903. Their second son, Roy, born 1902, was only one year old when his
mother died, leaving Jack to raise two young sons without a mother. Sometime around 1904 Jack met Lena Taber Hughes,
who had returned to the Oakland area with her five year old daughter, Lorena, following Lena's severe burns in Washington,
D.C. suffered shortly after her first husband, Ural Sumner (Fred) Hughes deserted her and Lorena. Jack and Lena were
married in October 1906, in San Francisco, only five months after the 1906 earthquake and fire almost totally destroyed the
city. Lena, Lorena, and Lena's father, Orrin, were living in San Francisco when the earthquake struck, and they all had vivid
memories of it, and the fires and aftershocks that followed. The Methodist church where they were married, must have suffered
extensive damage, but the marriage certificate indicates they were married in that church. Jack may have been living in Berkeley
at the time, as he was in 1902 when Roy was born to his first wife, Ethyl. In about 1908, Jack moved his family to Signal Hill,
above Long Beach, California. They had vacationed there, and Jack decided to move there, never realizing that the land on
which they lived for about five years was over an extensive field of oil. Signal Hill is now an unattractive, derrick filled area, still
producing oil. Unfortunately, Jack Bigelow did not reap the benefits of the oil discoveries made only a few years after he sold
their home! In about 1913 the Bigelow family moved to Napa County, California, living in the Calistoga area of the north end of
the beautiful Napa Valley. Vinyards were not extensive in those days, as the primary cash crop was prunes in Napa County.
Lorena, Ben and Roy all went to school here, all three graduating from Calistoga High School. The family returned to Berkeley
in about 1918, where Lorena went to the University of California, later finishing her studies in Pharmacy at the University's San
Francisco campus. When Jack's sons, Ben and Roy were of age, the three founded the home building firm of John E. Bigelow
and Sons, and built many homes in Berkeley and in Kensington in the Berkeley hills. They also constructed a magnificent show
place of a home for the family in Kensington, which was completed in about 1928. This was the last home for Jack Bigelow,
dying in the home of cancer in 1932. Lena continued to live there, when, in early 1937, Lorena's husband, Cedric, died in
Napa Valley, so Lorena and her two children, Carolyn and Billy, moved into the home with Lena. In 1952 a heart condition of
Lena's forced the family to sell the home and move to a single level home on Tacoma Avenue in the Solano Avenue area of
Berkeley. Lena died in May, 1958, a wonderful, loving mother to Lorena and Jack's two sons, and then very much a
co-mother in the raising of Lorena's children, Carolyn and Bill Barnett, while their mother worked as a hospital pharmacist to
support the family. She was a great lady, very intelligent, but largely self educated, with a wonderful personality. Unfortunately,
Carolyn was only two years old when Jack Bigelow died, so she never really knew her grandfather, and her brother Bill was
born shortly after he died. Jack Bigelow was an excellent provider to Lena and the family, but was a difficult man, and
unfortunately hid his obvious effection for his step daughter, Lorena, showing perhaps too much attention to his own sons, Ben
and Roy. But he was a far greater man than Lena's first husband, Ural S. Hughes, who did not seem to want anything to do
with their mother, Lena, or their child, Lorena.

John Edwin BIGELOW and Ethel FAIRCHILD had the following children:

+ 77 i. Benjamin Fairchild ¹⁰ BIGELOW was born Jan 28, 1900. (see below)

+ 78 ii. Roy Edwin ¹⁰ BIGELOW was born May 6. 1902. (see below)

79 iii. Catherine ¹⁰ BIGELOW was born in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 15 Oct 1903. Catherine died 15 Oct 1903 in
Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA, at less than one year of age. Her body was interred Oct 1903 in Oakland, Alameda Co, CA,
Mountain View.

77. Benjamin Fairchild ¹⁰ BIGELOW (John Edwin9, Benjamin David8, David7, Ebenezer6, Amasa5, Isaac4, Sgt Isaac3, Samuel2,
John1)(15) was born in Oakland, Alameda Co, CA, probably Jan 28, 1900. Benjamin died Apr 1953 in Oakland, Alameda Co,
CA, at 53 years of age.

He married Eleanor Grace CLEVELAND in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA, probably, 1929.(16) Eleanor was born in Ashland,
OR 28 Jun 1907. Eleanor(17) was the daughter of William CLEVELAND and Edith N. CROWSEN. Eleanor died 2 Jul 1937
Barstow, San Bernardino Co, CA, at 30 years of age.

He resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 13 Jun 1900, 1941 Berkeley Way. He resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 14
Jan 1920, 2336 Ward Street. Benjamin's occupation: Home builder in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA, bef 1932.

Benjamin Fairchild BIGELOW and Eleanor Grace CLEVELAND had the following children:

82 i. John Cleveland11 BIGELOW(18) was born in St Helena, Napa Co, CA 31 Jul 1931. John died 21 Apr 1951 in
Oakland, Alameda Co, CA, at 19 years of age.

83 ii. Thomas E. BIGELOW(19) was born in St Helena, Napa Co, CA 25 Dec 1932. He married Susan TEGARDEN in
Brownsville, TX, 24 Jun 1975.(20) Susan was born in Brownsville, TX 16 Oct 1940. Susan(21) is the daughter of Elmer Jack
TEGARDEN and Laura Lee TANSILL.

He resides in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara Co, CA 1999, 1532 Bedford Ave.

78. Roy Edwin10 BIGELOW (John Edwin 9, Benjamin David 8, David 7, Ebenezer 6, Amasa 5, Isaac 4, Sgt Isaac 3, Samuel 2,
John 1)(22) was born in Oakland, Alameda Co, CA, probably May 6. 1902. Roy died 11 Oct 1997 in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA, at 95 years of age.
He married Gertrude Phyllis GOSS circa 1948.(23) Gertrude was born in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co, CA 14 Feb 1921.
Gertrude(24) is the daughter of Jess Norman GOSS and Hazel Inez ONEILL. She resides in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 1994.
He resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA 14 Jan 1920, 2336 Ward Street. Roy's occupation: Home builder in Berkeley,
Alameda Co, CA, bef 1932. He resided in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA bef Oct 1997, 2713 Derby Street.

Roy Edwin BIGELOW and Gertrude Phyllis GOSS had the following children:

+ 84 i. Deborah11 BIGELOW was born 14 Jan 1950.

85 ii. Joshua BIGELOW(25) was born in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co, CA 23 Jul 1951. He married Patricia JONES ca 1986.(26) Patricia was born in
Jamestown, Tuolumne Co, CA ? 1 Apr 1950. Patricia(27) is the daughter of Even Owen (Casey) JONES and Jane OKENINWITCH. She resides in
Jamestown, Tuolumne Co, CA 1997. Joshua's occupation: Teacher in Columbia, Tuolumne Co, CA, 1997. He resides in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co, CA 1997.

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