Robert James 9 BIGELOW
15923.7352 Robert James 9
BIGELOW, son of Lebbeus
Loomis 8 ( Lebbeus
Loomis 7 , Israel
6 , Isaac 5
, Isaac 4, Isaac 3, Samuel 2,
John 1 ) and
Percilla (MILLER) BIGELOW, was born at Dubuque co., Iowa 26
August 1860. He married 05 April 1882 Emaline "Emma" Coast
Thomas. She was born 18 July 1864/5 in Venango co, PA, the daughter of
John and Clara ( ) Thomas. They resided at Parker City and had
two children. Robert James Bigelow was a well known oil
contractor and producer in Pennsylvania, California
and Texas during the early days of the oil industry. He, with his
brother, Charley, opened the famous Rosenberry Field (Pennsylvania)
which produced many thousands of barrels of high grade oil. A
Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania newspaper article published in July 1941,
stated "The Bigelow brothers
will always be remembered as honest, upright men by all with whom they
were associated".
He is buried in Llano Cemetery, Amarillo,
Texas. Robert died 27 July 1941 in Amarillo (see
obit and stone). Emaline died 03 August 1956 in Los Angeles, CA.
Children of Robert and Emaline (Thomas) Bigelow:
15923.73521 George Berle, b 09 July
1884;
d _____ ;
15923.73522t Karl Kenneth, b 24 June 1886
Parkers Landing, Parker City, PA; d 06 Feb 1968 Monterey Park,
CA; m 21 Dec 1909 Clara Jane Daugherity; 6 children; (see below)
Sources:
The Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol. II Page 413; child
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; Page 460;
http://www.447bg.com/
library/bigelow.html
Bigelow Society Database
E. D. Bigelow, (7 Feb 2001),
3254 Sandpiper Way,
Marina, California 93933-222,
e-mail: EBig16@aol.com;
bio for Karl Kenneth sent 13 Apr 2003 by Edgar D. Bigelow,
Colonel, USAF (RET),
West Alexander Ave.,
Merced, California;
He is grandson of Robert James.
15923.7352.2
Karl Kenneth 10 Bigelow, son of Robert
James 9 , etc, and Emeline "Emma" Coast (Thomas) Bigelow
was born 24 June 1886 at Parkers Landing, Parker City, PA.
He married Clara Jane "Nanny" Daugherity on 21 December 1909 in Dayton,
New Mexico.
They were parents of six children, 5 boys and 1 girl who died as an
infant.
Clara Jane (Daugherity) was born 30 June 1888 in Pine Springs, TX, the
daughter
of William Franklin and Mary
Charlene
(Shields) Daugherity. Karl Kenneth Bigelow learned the
oil
business from his father, Robert James, and his uncle, Charles Amon,
who
discovered and opened the famous Rosenberry Field in Pennsylvania in
the
early years of the oil business. He and his father were pioneer
oilmen
in California and Texas for many years. Karl Kenneth died 06
February
1986, in Monterey Park, California. He is buried in Rose Hill
Memorial
Park, Whittier, CA. His wife, Clara Jane, died 16 August 1982, in
Merced,
California, and is also buried in Rose Hill Memorial Park. Karl Kenneth
retired
in 1943 and he and Clara moved from TX to CA where he was employed as a
steam
engineer by a Los Angeles based state-wide creamery producer and
distributor.
He retired a second time in 1956.
Children of Karl Kenneth and Clara Jane (Daugherity) Bigelow:
15923.73522.1 William Harrold, b 04 Mar 1911
Artesia, NM; d _____ ; On 01 Jan 1937 William married Bette
Chandler by whom he had one child. He married (2) on 17 April 1948 to
Arlene Brown, daughter of Joseph Andrew and Elizabeth Marie (Davies)
Brown. She was born 13 Jul 1911 in Oakland, CA. William was Manager,
Covercar Corporation. William and Betty had one child. No
children second Marriage.William graduated from
Amarillo, TX High School in 1929. As a young man he worked in the
oil
fields of the Texas Panhandle with his father, Karl Kenneth, in the
early
1930s. He moved to Southern California in 1937, where he was
employed
by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation throughout world War
II.
He was divorced from his first wife in 1945 and married 17 april 1948
Arline
Brown in Monterey Park, CA. By this time he had joined the Covercar
Corporation,
a Major nation-wide industrial laundry business. He was the Chief
Purchasing
Agent for their Uniform Division when he retired in 1973. He and
Arline,
then relocated to Central California where they lived until her death
in
1996. He now lives with son, Berle Chandler, in Salinas,CA.
15923.73522.2 Orvis Karl, b 17 Oct 1912 in
Amarillo, TX; d before 2013; He married Olivia Belle Cargile,
daughter of William Ira and Adeline Ethele (Tidwell) Cargile.
Olivia was born 03 Jun 1914 in Birmingham, AL. She was a
Secretary and Realtor Associate. William was Business Manager and
Comptroller. He was with the Petroleum Industry in Beirut,
Lebanon for fifteen years. They had no children. Orvis Karl
graduated from Amarillo High School in 1929 and Amarillo college in
1933. He was an accountant with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
from 1933 to 1935 in New Mexico, TX and CO. He was employed by
Rowan and Co. and Knoll Transportation company from 1935 to 1940.
At this time he moved to California and was accountant with
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation until 1947. He joined
the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co.in late 1947 and was assigned to their
Headquarters in Bierut, Lebanon. He retired in 1963 and returned
to the US. Soon after settling in Carmel, CA, he was appointed
business manager of the Carmel Sanitary district until his second
retirement in 1982. He and wife still live in Carmel CA.
15923.73522.3 Catherine Clara, b 19 Feb 1915 Dayton, NM;
d 17 Mar 1915 Dayton, NM;
15923.73522.4t Edgar Daugherity, b 18 Oct 1916
Amarillo, TX; d 22 Sept 2013 ; m 03 Mar 1943 Juanna Joe Wigham; 3
children; (see below)
15923.73522.5t Karl K. "KK" Bigelow, b 29 October
1921 Stanton, TX; d _____ ; On 14 Sept 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii,
he married Marilyn A. S. Bradbury. They have two sons and one
daughter. KK graduated from Amarillo High School, Amarillo, TX,
in 1939. He completed
two years of graduate education at the University of Colorado prior to
joining
the U.S.M.C. as a Naval Aviator in 1942. He was assigned to
various
stations in the Pacific Theatre during W.W.II. He was the Naval
Air
Attache, Bonn, Germany when he retired in 1964 to accept a position
with
the Harvey Aluminum Corporation as their representative in
Germany. He was assigned to the home office of the
Martin-Marietta Corporation in Washington,
D.C. in 1968. Retired as a Vice-president of Martin-Marietta
corporation
in 1992. He and his wife now reside on Sanibel Island, Florida.
15923.73522.6t Robert Berle, b 31 Oct 1925 in
Amarillo, TX; d ____ ; He graduated from Amarillo High School in
1942 and enlisted in the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific
Theatre of Operations during W. W. II. He was discharged from the
U.S.Navy in 1949 and was commissioned in the United States Air Force in
1950. His overseas assignments included Guam, Okinawa, Labrador,
England, and Vietnam and Germany. He retired from the USAF in
1980 with rank of Colonel. On 14 May 1955 he married Marcia
Gusman in Spokane, WA where they reside in 1999. They had four
children: Mary, Opal, Thelma, and Kenneth Bigelow (not sure of order).
Kenneth died at the age of 18 in Amarillo co, TX.
\15923.73522.4 Edgar
Daugherity 11 Bigelow, son of Karl Kenneth 10
Bigelow, etc, and Clara Jane (Daugherity) Bigelow., was
born 18 October 1916 Amarillo, TX; He married Juanna Jo Wigham,
on 03 March 1943 in the chapel of the Walla Walla, Washington Army Air
Base. Edgar was in Military service December 1941 to February
1968 with the USAF (initially the Army Air Corps). He retired as
Colonel. He received his BA from Hardin-Simmons University,
Abilene, Texas in 1939 (MAGNA CUM LAUDE). He was Captain of the
HSU football team (selected as All-American for smaller colleges and
universities in 1938) and Vice President of his Senior Class. Appointed
2nd Lt. in the U.S. Army AirCorps in May 1942. Assigned to Eighth
Air Force in England 1943-1945 during W.W.II. He entered the
Intelligence field of operations in 1950 and was given assignments in
Turkey and South Vietnam during the period 1954 through 1963.
Retired from the USAF in 1968 with rank of Colonel. He was a partner in
Bigelow Construction Company, Inc., selling and constructing vacation
homes in northern Virginia 1970-1980. He married Juanna Jo
Wigham, daughter of Jack Hugh and
Lila (Terry) Wigham. She was born 12 June 1924 in Panhandle,
Texas. Lila was a Realtor. They had three children.
Edgar graduated
from Amarillo High School in 1934. He and Juanna resided in
Marina, California. Edgar died Sunday, 22 September 2013, eleven
months after his beloved wife of 70 years, Juanna Jo Wigham Bigelow.
Children of Edgar Daugherity and Lila (Terry) Bigelow:
15923.73522.41t Jimmy Karl, b 28 Feb 1944 Amarillo, TX; d _____
; m 03 Apr 1971 Judith Lynn Anderson (divorced); 3 children;
15923.73522.42t Teresa Jane, b 13 July 1948 San Francisco; d
____ ; m twice; 2 children from 1st marriage;
15923.73522.43t David Hugh, b 06 June 1954 Rapid City, SD
on Ellsworth Air Force Base; d ____ ; m Teresa Ann Pittman, ( she b 29
May 1962 at Rocky Mount, NC; 2 children.
Source:
Amarillo Globe-News, March 30, 2014
Edgar Daugherity Bigelow, 96,
died Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.
Services be at 11 a.m. Monday, April 7, 2014,
in Old Post Chapel in Fort Myer. Colonel Bigelow and his wife will be
buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
Edgar died at 96, eleven months after his
beloved wife of 70 years, Juanna Jo Wigham Bigelow. He was born in
Amarillo, the son of Clara Jane Daugherity and Karl Kenneth Bigelow.
Survivors include three children, Jimmy Karl
Bigelow, Teresa Jane Telles and David Hugh Bigelow; seven
grandchildren; three great-granddaughters; and two brothers, Lt. Col.
KK Bigelow of Florida and Col. Robert Berle Bigelow of Washington.
Obituary
Rod Bigelow (Roger Jon 12
BIGELOW)
Box 13 Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
rodbigelow@netzero.net 
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