Charles Newell 10 BIGELOW
Stuart Cemetery; Stuart, Holt County, Nebraska
16313.31421 Charles Newell 10
BIGELOW, son of Dana Newell 9
( Asahel
Arnold 8 , Asahel Freeman 7 , Timothy 6 , Amasa 5 , David 4 , Lt. John 3 , Joshua 2, John 1), and Sarah
(WARREN) BIGELOW, was born 08 September 1866 in
Kankakee, Kankakee county, IL. He married
07 March 1897 Belle E. Eldredge She was born 31 Jan 1875 in Sturgis,
Iowa(, the dau of Harmon N. and Martha A. (Huckins) Eldredge. Belle
died 24 Aug 1901 (aged 26) Charles died 09 February 1959 in
O'Neill, Holt County, NE (aged 92) (see below)
No children of Charles and Belle (Eldridge) Bigelow:
Sources:
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume II, ;
vital records VT;
1850 census, Worcester, Washington co, VT;
Find a Grave
Obituary:
Feb 13,1959 Atkinson Graphic CHAS BIGELOW OF STUART IS DEAD AT 92
Charles N Bigelow, 92, one of Stuart’s oldest pioneer residents,
died Mon morning, Feb 9, at St Anthony’s Hospital, O’Neill, where he
had been a patient about 11 weeks.
Mr Bigelow, hotel owner, former farm operator, and dealer in
livestock, grain and hay for many years, was one of western Holt
County’s earliest settlers. A native of Kankaakee, Ill, he came to
this county with his parents in 1881.
Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Wed afternoon at the Stuart
Community Church with the Rev Herbert Young, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in the Stuart Cem under the direction of the Seger
Funeral Home of Atkinson. The pallbearers were Pat Murphy, George
Wallinger, Donald Krotter, Hubert Kohle, and Tom MeGuire, all of
Stuart and Claude F Humphreys of Atkinson.
Charles Newell Bigelow, son of Dana N and Sarah Warren Bigelow, was
born Sept 8,1866 at Kankakee, Ill.
He came to Holt County, Nebr at the age of 22 with his parents and
his brother, Frank in the spring of 1881. The family settled on a
homestead on the Sandy, northeast of Stuart.
Tragedy struck the family in Aug 1881, when Charlie’s father, Dana
and his father’s brother, George, were trapped in a cave in while
digging a well on the homestead. They were down approximately 30
feet when the shoring gave way and the center section of the well
caved in on them.
George died of suffocation the first day of the accident, but
Charlie’s father, still trapped in the well, lived for three days
and was able to talk to members of the rescue party. He died just a
few hours before he was removed from the well.
Men from the construction crew which was building the railroad
through this section of the country at that time went to the Bigelow
place and helped dig out the trapped homesteaders.
After Mr Bigelow’s death, the family moved to Stuart in 1882 and
built the Stuart House, a hotel which Charles Bigelow still owned
when he died and where he made his home.
Mr Bigelow was married to Belle Eldrige on March 7,1897, at O’Neill.
His wife died in childbirth in 1901 and the baby also was lost.
He is survived by one brother, Frank W Bigelow of Atkinson; six
nephews and nieces, F Dana Bigelow of Stuart; Maurice and John N
Bigelow of Los Angeles, Cal; Mrs Frank Kennelly of Denver, Colo; Mrs
Marion Sack of Los Angeles; and Mrs Leo F Seger of Atkinson; also
his friend, Miss Minnie Haskins, who for many years has rented and
operated the hotel where he made his home.
Modified - 02/11/2025
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