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Children of Samuel Ervin and Mary (Pickard) Bigelow:
12169.4661 Earl, was born 1888, Ottawa Co., Ohio.
He apparently worked for a railroad and then died in a railroad accident.
12169.4662 Harlan, born 1898, Ottawa Co., Ohio. He
apparently worked for a railroad and then died in a railroad accident.
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II page ;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
note2: family group sheet from Patricia
Bigelow;
U.S. Census 1840-1850-1860-1870);
Horace M. Bigelow Family Bible;
note: Forge "The Bigelow Society Quarterly,
Vol.17 (2): 27, 30; April 1988);
letter dated 20 April 2004 from Richard Hale Zimmerman
Probate Court records regarding estate of George Pickard, Mary's father
New Note 08/14/06:
From: Pamela Klein < carpediem@manabeads.com
> and
Richard H. Zimmerman < rhz1415@starpower.net
>
Samuel ( ), Bigelow, son of _____________ Bigelow and Mary (Lyman) Bigelow,
was born
In a letter from Richard Hale Zimmerman,
507 Leighton Ave., Silver Spring, Maryland 20901-4825, dated 20 Apr
2004:
"Samuel Bigelow was born in Connecticut, possibly Hartford,
at some point between 1775 and 1800. He is mentioned in
G. B. Howe's work, "Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America" in which
the information was supplied by his grandson, George
In this account, Samuel was supposed to have been born in 1776,
his father died soon after and his mother, Mary Lyman Bigelow, then
married a man named Conn. Dick Zimmerman was unable to confirm
any of this in his 13 March 2004 letter. U. S. Census records for
1810 through 1840 recorded only a range of years for those enumerated
and from these one can deduce a birth date for Samuel anytime between
1775 and 1800. Census records for 1850 (age 65) and 1860 (age 75)
indicate a birth date in the latter half of 1784 or the first half of
1785. His tombstone seen in July 2003 indicates that he died 23
December 1863 at age 81, indicating a birth date in 1782.
"...Census records show that he lived in Salisbury,
Litchfield County, Connecticut in 1810, 1820, 1830 after which he is
recorded in Streetsboro Township, Portage County, Ohio. Pat Bigelow
indicated that he moved to Streetsboro in 1833 ("Forge: The Bigelow
Society Quarterly" 17(2):27,30;1988) In Salisbury, he married Phebe
Minard (born 20 October 1793 in Salisbury) about 1809 "Forge, same ref".
All eight of their children were born there and the seventh, Hiram L.,
died when about a year old and is buried at Town Hill Cemetery, Salisbury.
"...Portage County in northeastern Ohio is part
of the Western Reserve of Connecticut, also called New Connecticut, and
this entire region had many early settlers from Connecticut ("Harlan Hatcher,
The Western Reserve; The Story of New Connecticut in Ohio, Bobbs-Merrill
1949). The first settlers arrived in Streetsboro in 1822, although
the Township itself did not become independent of the adjoining townships
until 1827.
"Phebe Minard Bigelow died 18 July 1849 at the
age of 56 years, 6 months (source: tombstone, Streetsboro Cemetery,
Streetsboro Twp., Portage Co., Ohio). In 1850, Samuel was recorded
on the U.S. Census with the family of his daughter and son-in-law, Mary
and Robert Smith. He married 4 November 1850 Elizabeth R. Bow (born
about 1798), who apparently survived him. He died 23 December 1863
and was buried in Streetsboro (source: U.S. Census 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840,
1850, 1860; Early Marriage Bonds of Ohio - Portage Co.; Forge: The Bigelow
Society Quarterly, 17(2):27,30;1988; family group sheet from Patricia
Bigelow; tombstone, Streetsboro Cemetery, Streetsboro Twp., Portage Co.,
Ohio)."
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