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Children of Francis and Caroline (Bigelow) Mills, correct order subject to correction:
16B2A.2111 Frank Mills, b ____ ; d ____ ;
16B2A.2112 Mable Mills, b ____ ; d ____ ; res. Berkeley, CA.
16B2A.2113 Frances Mills, b ____ ; d ____ ; res. Alameda,
CA.
16B2A.2114 George Mills, b ____ ; d ____ ; res. Alameda, CA.
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II; page 519;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
FORGE: The Bigelow Society Quarterly; Vol. 9, No. 2 April, 1980
FORGE: The Bigelow Society Quarterly; Vol.
28 No.3.
Application of Caroline's descendants to Native Daughters of Golden West
on file, Bigelow society Library.
Thompson and West, History of Sutter co, CA;
histories of Siskyou and Butte counties, CA;
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol.I";
histories of Butte and Siskiyou counties, CA;
census records CA;
descendants family records;
family Bibles;
correspondence with descendants of Marcus Bigelow;
The late Mrs. Ed (Pat) Bigelow's records;
Larry W. Campbell, 4741 7th Av., Sacramento 20, CA submitted group sheets
before Vol. 1 and 2 were on computer. Marcus crossed the plains by ox-cart
in 1857. A letter (Eugene's article) written by Marcus' older brother
to Allen Bigelow and Emily Wallace, his parents, instructing them how to
prepare for the transcontinental trip. Allen was then 55 and took wife
and children to foot of Mt. Shasta in Northern CA, evidently taking the Oregon
trail after crossing Utah and dropped into CA fm. the north and settled
in Weed, a little community on the northeast slope of Mt. Shasta.
They went into the logging business and were active in the manufacture of
lumber during gold rush era. Then they moved to Gridley, 100 mi.south
in Sacramento Valley and farmed. In their memory, BIGELOW FALLS on
east slope of Mt.Shasta (near famous chalets later built by William R. Hurst)
and BIGELOW ROAD, near Pennington not far from Gridley.
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