Children of Daniel and Ellen (Spicer) Bigelow:
1592C.159A1 Edgar, b _____ ; d _____ ; he was killed in an airplane crash.
1592C.159A2 Mary Spicer, b 19 Apr 1894; d ____ ; m 13 July 1915 Herbert H. Sommerfield; no children known.
1592C.159A3 Howard, b ___ 1920; d 23 Jan 1951; m Anna ____ ; (see below)
1592C.159A4 Waity, b _____ ; d _____ ; m ___ Sommerfield;
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 425;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
family records of descendants;
Bigelow Society records.
Material sent to Bigelow Society by the Western Bigelow Society, Canada;
Note:
Howard killed by wounded elephant in Africa. Both he and wife left
the U.S., from
LA, CA to become missionaries in 1929, stationed at Lake Kivu,Belgian Congo.
3 children including Don Bigelow.
FORGE, October 1979, Vol.8, #4, p.74 states he was
b. 1880s-1890s. They translated the Bible according to St. Mark into
the
African language used by the Congo natives. Howard was asked by Howard
Hill,
great archer and film producer, to accompany him in Africa to produce the
film
later called "Tembo" a documentary and adventure film showing that an adult
elephant could be taken with a bow and arrow. Bigelow did most of
the game
hunting for this production and as such as a licensed hunter and guide.
Plans
were made at the conclusion of the film-shooting, Bigelow would leave Lake
Kivu
for a mission at Costermansville, about 85 miles distant. Anna still
in the US
would take the H.M.S. Queen Mary from NY to Paris, then fly to Africa to
join
Howard. On 23 Jan 1951, Howard, realizing he could still take one
elephant
according to the permit he held for the Hill expedition, decided to use
this to
assist two young native friends. The young couple, quite impoverished,
needed
a little money in order to marry. Sale of a pair of elephant tusks
would bring
them about $90. Therefore, Howard Bigelow and some native friends
set out into
the bush country to take an elephant. About dusk they spotted an elephant
down
in a river valley. Howard fired 5 shots from the ridge but only wounded
the
animal. He fired a 6th shot the same time the elephant spotted Howard
and
chased him. Tall grass hampered Howard Bigelow's escape and the elephant
caught up with him. He hit Howard with its trunk then put its one
and only
tusk through Howard's mid section, picked him up and threw him into the
air.
Howard died and the elephant's body was found the next day about 2 miles
up
river. FORGE article written by members of the Western Bigelow Society.
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