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Children of Horace Otis and Adeline (Phillips) Bigelow:
16355.1511 Olney Bacchus, b 15 Sept 1848 Clyman, Dodge, WI; d 19 Feb 1864 Bridgeport, AL (not quite 16 in Civil War).(see below)
16355.1512 Francis Zebulon, b 06 Nov 1852 Clyman; d 31 May 1853 North Chili, NY.
Children of Horace and Mary (Phillips) Bigelow:
16355.1513t Adaline Amanda, b 16 May 1854 Dundee, Monroe, MI; d 10 Jan 1918 Pleasanton, CA; m 23 June 1880 Dr. Calvin Case; 3 children.
16355.1514t Frances Elizabeth, b 30 March 1856 Blissfield, Lenawee, MI; d 22 April 1922 Detroit; m 23 August 1888 at Shepard, MI John D. McKenna; 2 children.
16355.1515t Chandler Burdette, b 08 July 1859 Coe; d 10 Dec 1923 CA; m (1) unknown date Minnie C. Hoy, she d 12 Jan 1890, 2 children, m (2) 06 June1895 at CA, Cornelia V. Woodard, 1 child.
16355.1516 Zebulon Eber, b 23 Feb 1862 Coe Township, MI; d 10 May 1891 Isabella co, MI; unmarried.
16355.1516t Horace Olney, b 21 Dec 1865 Coe; d 16 Oct 1929 Tacoma, WA; m ca 1887 in MI, Iva May Clark; res. Aberdeen and Tacoma, WA; 3 children.
Children of Horace Otis and Lizzie Gertrude (Wing) Bigelow:
16355.1517t Imogene Wing, b 29 Apr 1896, Shepherd, MI; d_____; m 02 March 1918 Flint, MI, Thomas Grady Hicks; res. Detroit and FL; 3 children.
16355.1518t Clara Pauline, b 09 March 1898 Shepherd; d_____; m (1) MauriceW. Curtis, div. 1923, 1 child, m (2) 04 Oct 1945 Harold Milton Bigelow, son of Samuel and Hattie (Pollard) Bigelow, d 24 May 1970 So. Daytona, FL.
16355.1519t Harold Sears, b 12 July 1901 Shepard; d 22 Jan 1980 Ann Arbor, MI; m 0l Jan 1925 Flushing, MI Wilhelmina Brown Donley; res. Flint, MI; 5 children.
16355.151At Madeline, b ____ ; d _____ ; m George DeWitt; 5 children: Vernadett, Willam, Wayne, Norman and Helena M. DeWitt. ( Helena M. DeWitt was treasurer of the Bigelow Society for many years; She was born 08 Sept 1916 Flint, Genesee co, MI; She married in 1961 Paul Roth, who had died before 2003, when Helena died 12 Jan 2003 Flint, MI)
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II page 508-509;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Descendants of Horace Otis Bigelow, by Harold Sears Bigelow, pub
1973;
Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly; vol 29, no 1; Jan 2000.
Forge Notes:
16355.1511 R26388, Olney Backus Bigelow, first son of Horace Otis
Bigelow (Chandler Butler, Otis, Otis, Asa, John, Joshua, John) and first
wife Adeline Phillips, d/o Zebulon and Sophia (Scribner) Phillips.
Olney was born 15 Sep 1848 in Clyman, Dodge co., WI?. No wife is listed.
Olney died in the Civil War at Bridgeport, ALA, 19 Feb 1864. Forge article
states Olney went with his father, Horace Otis Bigelow and mother Adaline
(Phillips), to the frontier in Wisconsin. There his mother gave birth
to an infant boy, and died soon after. Horace took his young son and
the new baby back to New York. The baby died on the way, so Olney was
the only remaining child of "Grandfather Horace's first wife Adaline.
In New York, Horace married again, to Mary Phillips, sister of his first
wife. With Olney, they moved to Shepherd, MI. There he planted an apple
orchard and farmed the land when it was little more than a frontier. Indians
were common visitors on the byways of the new settlement, then called Salt
River. There Olney grew up in the home of his new mother, along with many
new brothers and sisters. Theirs was a two story brick house with a comfortable
front porch, ornamental woodwork, a gabled roof and a large yard. Then
the civil War erupted in America when Olney was 15 years old. He went
to war and died in the beautiful mountains of northeastern Alabama.
He was not quite 16 when he died in Civil War.
FORGE article January 2000, Vol.29, No.1, page 7, for Olney's last days before
he died and letters. Author of the article by Joanne (Hicks) Godwin,
states: "That Olney's letters eventually fell to my family's keeping
was only on the strength of his father's long life and third marriage.
For, years after Olney had died, his second mother, Mary Bigelow sickened.
A woman was needed to take care of her and to clean and run the farm home.
Lizzie Wing stepped into the position and cared for Mary with tenderness.
A friendship followed between them that is preserved until this day in our
family's recollections, long afterthese two old friends have passed away
and rest together in Horace's plot in the cemetery at Shepherd. For,
sometime after Mary's death, Horace married her friend and housekeeper, Lizzie
Wing. He was over 70 years old when he started his third family and my mother
was the first child born to Horace and Lizzie.".........."l32 years after
Olney's death, my sister, Virginia Hicks Martin, and our cousins, Jackie Bigelow
Woods, June Bigelow Hicks and Sue Ellen Bigelow Dallis, and I can all say
we are just one generation removed from the Civil War and Olney, our Civil
War soldier..." Submitted by Jacqueline Bigelow Woods.
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