Old Bigelow Board 13

This page is for questions and additions related to the information posted by the Bigelow Society.
The Query Page that Don Bigelow set up is getting too big, so I started this.................ROD 01/07/99
My e-mail is bigelow@slic.com Blue Gray Line

Please check out the only Bigelow-envisioned and developed Internet search engine, BigWhat.com, at
http://www.bigwhat.com The world's first map-based search engine created by Andrew E. Bigelow, son of
Donald E. Bigelow dbigelow@tampabay.rr.com , of Bradenton, FL, form. Alaska.......02/01/2001
There is also My Family.com set up by David Duane ( wzbngpop@worldnet.att.net )........11/12/99
There is also FamilyHistory.com which has postings.................................05/12/2000
There is also a Bigelow Family Genealogy Forum set up by Family Tree Maker, that has postings. 01/31/99
There is now a Family Search site from The Latter Day Saints (LDS)........................5/10/99
also search RootsWeb Surname List for contacts....................3/11/99
Northern New York American-Canadian Genealogical Association: http://www.Rootsweb.com/~nnyacgs/
AncientFaces: http://www.ancientfaces.com/
See Old Bigelow Notes 1998 for messages I am just now getting around to.....ROD 1/26/2000.

See Old Bigelow Notes 1999 for messages I am just now getting around to.....ROD 12/26/2000.

In a book called "Early Marriages of CT", I found a different marriage date than the Bigelow Society for the following:
Isaac Bigelow of Springfield married Tabitha Chapman on 24 Aug 1794 (instead of 04 Aug 1794) at East Haddam, CT..see Isaac ⁵ Bigelow...............ROD 12/27/2000.

In a book called "Early Marriages of CT", I found a marriage that the Bigelow Society does not have:
Frederick Bigelow married Abigail Foster on 11 Nov 1778 at Middletown, CT........ROD

In a book called "Early Marriages of CT", I found a marriage that the Bigelow Society does not have:
Elvin Bigelow married Hannah Curtiss on 24 Oct 1782 at Wethersfield (Rocky Hill), CT........ROD

Subject: Ada Rafferty, Wife of Lucius Horatio Biglow
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:34:28 -0800
From: Gladys Biglow Hull   < GBHull@Harborside.com >
   We have just discovered your web site and enjoy it very much. I have been trying to track down my grandmother, Ada Rafferty, who was married on 01May1884 to Lucius Horatio Biglow, and wonder if the Bigelow genealogies offer any clues there?
   I am also most interested in all the data contained in your web site about my Bigelow heritage. I am sure that as I dig deeper, I will find out about the Bigelow Society, and other published materials.
I am Gladys Biglow Hull, daughter of Earl Biglow, preceded by 3 generations of Lucius Biglows, a Silas Biglow (b. 24 Dec1766), preceded by Samuel Biglo (b.28Oct1653), and John Bigulah (m. 30Aug1642). This is as far as I have
gone based on family records, and without the benefit of shared genealogy. I look forward to exploring the data you and others have collected. I am new at genealogy, and welcome any suggestions you may offer.
By the way, my line has fussed some about whether the proper spelling is Bigelow or Biglow. Has anyone discussed spelling variations? Thank you,
Gladys Biglow Hull
619 NE 59th Street
Newport, OR 97365
see Lucius ⁷ Bigelow.no info on 8th generation...............................ROD

Subject: Noah Bigelow married to Cynthia Scott Bennington, VT
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 19:11:36 EST
From: Tim Cadden caddone1@aol.com
To follow-up on previous information. I have been researching the Scott family line with Tyler Resch the Bennington, VT Museum Librarian. Town records show that Cynthia Scott, the daughter of Matthew Scott and Sarah Scott, was born June 8, 1775. Cynthia Scott married Noah Bigelow about 1796 and they had three children, Silas Pomeroy Bigelow, Noah Scott Bigelow and Sally Bigelow. Cynthia Scott Bigelow's younger brother Matthew Scott, who eventually raised Noah Scott Bigelow, was born November 24, 1781 in Bennington, VT to Matthew Scott and Sarah Scott.
I thought you might be interested in this information.
Great job on Bigelow family line.
Sincerely, Tim Cadden
see Noah ⁶Bigelow............................ROD

Subject: The Winthrop Woman
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 09:04:38 -0500
From: "Ellen Langston" < ellenlangston@hotmail.com >

I stumbled across your website, and I see where there has been a docudrama on "The Winthrop Woman". I am a direct descendant of her through her son William Hallet Jr. I was curious if you could direct me in be able to get a copy of this movie.
Thanks!
Ellen Langston
see Winthrop Woman note3: .......................................ROD

I received two new messages in December about The Winthrop Woman from email friends.
see Note5: and Note6: .......................................ROD
also see the notes from early November and October that were out of order...........ROD

Subject: Bigelow Sugar Plantation
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:25:40 -0500
From: "Marcus S. Andersen" < msaent@QuixNet.net >

My mother In-law lives on a old lot with an old cemetery on it. All the grave stones have the last name Bigelow on it and I
was wondering if we could get any Information on this lot. The person who sold the house to her said it was an old sugar
plantation. I believe one of the stones said Ann Bigelow and the dates I believe are eighteenth century or older I'm not sure. If
you can give my any type of information please e-mail me at darkchylde1_98@yahoo.com.
I don't know if this is the same cemetery in Jacksonville that I recently researched
I believe the Plantation was a citrus plantation in Floral Park
see Robert ⁷Bigelow, with headstone pics..................................ROD

Subject: John C Bigelow
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:32:52 EST
From: Carol M Fletcher CMFltc@aol.com

I have just dropped by your Bigelow web site, and I was wondering if any Bigelows out there had any information on John C Bigelow, he married my 2x great aunt Portia Quaife, in Butler County on March 1st 1879 this is the only information that I have to date. The only information that I have of Portia Quaife is that she was baptised as an adult in 1876 in Hawkhurst Kent West
Sussex England. Both Portia and her husband John C Bigalow are mentioned in her fathers will of 1883.
I would be very pleased if anyone can help in the search for any ancestors or descendants of the above.
Carol M Fletcher West Yorkshire England
nothing yet.........................................ROD

Subject: Poultney Bigelow
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:29:23 -0500
From: "Albert Baggetta" < baggetta@massed.net >
Hi. My name is Albert Baggetta and I teach English at Agawam High School in Masschusetts. About 30 years ago I found a menu card with a group of autographs on the back, in pencil. One of them is Poultney Bigelow. I've been researching the card since then and wonder if you can fill me in on his connection with Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (also on the card) and the Beefsteak Club of the Lyceum theater. Thank you for any information you can give me. Al Baggetta
see Inventory of Poultney Bigelow papers = http://www.ulster.net/~rdragon/pbinv.htm
see Poultney ⁸ Bigelow.................ROD

Subject: Flagg and Bigelow
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:22:36 EST
From: Richard W. Flagg BigboyNJ1@aol.com
My name is Richard W. Flagg and I am a direct desendent of Thomas Flagg and I have one cousin that is still married to a Biglow, so I guess we have been tied together for over 370 years in America. I once gave my cousin Chester Bigelow in Mass a Bigelow line back as far as 300AD years. How many Americans today go back to Thomas Flagg 1637?
see Flagg family and New Jersey Bigelows...............................ROD

Subject: Sam Bigelow
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:18:34 -0800
From: "Sylvia Ellingwood" < seeschick2@email.msn.com >

I was exploring the Bigelow site and clicked on history you've uncovered doing genealogy.
My interest in Bigelow family history dates to a Sam Bigelow who was a patient of my father who was a doctor in Lowell,
Mass.. Sam was very elderly when I met him in the late 1950's. He was an interesting and wise man. I recall he had been a
policeman somewhere along the line in Lowell, Mass. (I think) and he had gone to Alaska during the gold rush up there. He
was a guest at our lake home and I well remember the day he came to teach my dietician mother how to dig a hole in the
ground to bake beans as they did in Alaska.
Do you know the man I refer to? He imparted "words to live by" on my last visit to him as he was a patient in a Lowell hospital.
That was my last visit with this gentleman but I have never forgotten his friendship and wisdom. Sylvia
nothing yet, but history is at http://www.slic.com/bigelow/history1.htm ...................ROD

Subject: Warren family
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:25:49 -0500
From: "Andrea M. Lewandusky" < Hinorah@nycap.rr.com >
Hello,
My name is Andrea Sharp, my Gt. Gt. Gt. Grandfather (in other words My Grandfather's Grandfather) was Lorenzo Warren. He was born in England I believe September 1847. He was disowned by his family for falling in Love and marrying
Elizabeth Gillan, an Irish Catholic. They had two children John Henry & Delia who were both born in New York. I have not been able to find Mr.Lorenzo Warren in my searching other than reference to him in the 1900 NY census listing his daughter
Delia and the birth place of her father and mother. I was wondering if you might have run across the name in your research?
I have a bit more information on Lorenzo that might help?
He ended up settling in Troy,NY (Rensselaer county). During the turn on the century, the Warren family were prominent industrialists.
The family story regarding Lorenzo and Elizabeth, goes like this.
Elizabeth (b. 1849? d. 1913) who was from Ireland worked for the Warren family, as a cook, while working her dress caught on fire and Lorenzo put it out, starting the flame in his heart.
We do not know if they met in England or in the US or were married in England or in the US? Once in the US where they originally settled? But I think the Warrens of Troy, NY were a family relation, I just don't know the connection.
I hope some of this information will help. Also I think he may have been removed from many of the family records.
Thank your for your time and help. Andrea
nothing on Lorenzo, see Warren1.htm................................ROD

Subject: William Gantz Bigelow
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:05:48 -0500
From: Kathy Waters szowat@impop.bellatlantic.net

Rod, I just received a copy of Wm. Gantz Bigelow's civil war file. I also was sent a picture of Leah Weidman Bigelow and her husband Eliphaz Bigelow and one of William G. in Civil war uniform by a lady in Pa. My Weidman family is linked to Leah and Martha by their brother Adam. Let me know if this can help.
Kathy Waters.
see Eliphaz ⁷ and William Gantz ⁸ Bigelow..................................ROD

Subject: boston jeweler bigelow kennard
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:49:00 -0500
From: jasro < jasro@mediaone.net >
I am researching the Boston jeweler Bigelow Kennard and specifically, Alanson Bigelow's son Alanson, jr. if you know of any
other relevant info regarding this on your site feel free to email me.
Thanks and congratulations on a very professional site. Jim
see Alanson ⁷ and John ⁶ Bigelow..........................................ROD

Subject: Bigelow Ancestry...
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:47:31 -0500
From: "Bigelow, Nathan (BIS.JAX)" < NBigelow@NA2.US.ML.com >

Hello there. My name is Nathan Richard Bigelow (born in East Chicago, Indiana on Aug. 15, 1976)
I'm connected by the following track... John (1), Samuel (2), John (3), John(4), Nathan(5), Irad (6), Artis (7), Wesley (8), Ralph Evans (9), Ralph Herbert (10) born in Essex, NY on May 17, 1926-Present, Clinton Russell (11) born in Catskill, NY on December 23, 1952-present), and Me.
Perhaps I can provide you with more data to continue this line of the tree for the website. Nathan.
see Wesley ⁸ Bigelow. also picture of son Roy ⁹ Bigelow..............................ROD

Subject: Bigelow Connection
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 01:09:41 EST
From: John Priest PRIESTS@aol.com
Rod,
My great-grandmother, Mary Jane Bigelow, was the daughter of Benson and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Bigelow. She
died in 1914 in Littleton, MA. The Priest family of Littleton and Ayer are her descendents. If you want more info, I can send it to you. John Priest see link below:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/r/i/JOHN-L-PRIEST/GENE9-0008.html

see Mary ⁷ Bigelow...............................ROD

Subject: a descendant of Deborah (Bigelow) Hoar, Holden
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:44:11 +0100
From: "Chantal LANGE" < chantal.lange@wanadoo.fr >

Hello,
I don't know if my informations will be useful for the Bigelow website. I think that I know some children and their families about Silvius Hoard, who was the 2d son of Samuel Hoar and Deborah Bigelow. It seems that Silvius was not a daughter
but a son. He married Nancy Mary de Villers (1796-1873) who died in Oswegatchie, St Lawrence Co, NY. She was the eldest daughter of my "cousin" Lewis de Villers (Louis Charles Aimé Lefebvre de Villers was his complete french name), who came from France with Rochambeau and never came back, and of Sarah Kinne.
for more see: Deborah ⁵ Bigelow.................................ROD

Subject: Alexander Bigelow
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:58:22 -0800
From: "Kim Sparks" < kesparks@telusplanet.net >
I'm doing a little research on my family...my father was Eric Malcolm Bigelow b. Feb 1944 or 45..d. summer of 1964, Brothers.... James, Richard, Gordon, Sisters...Dianna, Dorothy, Father was Alexander Bigelow....married to Mildred Page...from Quebec....or S.E. Ontario......not much to go on.....but I'm hoping you can help me.
Kim Sparks (nee Bigelow)
Children numbers 8, 9, 10 added by letter from Kim (Bigelow) Sparks on 19 Mar 1997, 4:30 EST to Jean Legereit (Legrite@AOL.com) Genealogist/historian of Bigelow Society 1997.
see Sylvester ⁹ Bigelow...........................ROD

Subject: Dolly Bigelow
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:59:58 -0500
From: "Frank/Barbara Menchin" < rikki@aspi.net >
Trying to get to Dolly Child Bigelow from Ezra Bigelow page. Have information for you on Cynthia Child daughter of Lydia
Bigelow who was married to Zachariah Child.
F. C. Menchin
rikki@aspi.net
see Ezra ⁶ Bigelow......................................ROD

Subject: Hobart B. Bigelow
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:01:57 -0500
From: "James Fregau" < bigelowco@cshore.com >
Organization: The BIGELOW CO

We are interested in obtaining more information on Hobart Bigelow.
Thank you. Best Regards
Jim Fregeau
The Bigelow Company
Phone 203-245-3838 or 203-245-3840
email: bigelowco@cshore.com
Fax 203-245-9797
see Hobart B. ⁸Bigelow.......................................ROD

Subject: Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul Minn.
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:59:44 -0600
From: Helen Nelson < bridgebunny@mailbag.com >
I am interested in the Brown and Bigelow Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. I have a very limited amount of information, but I believe that there should be a good deal more. The person named Brown may be a subject for research later
Helen V. Nelson bridgebunny@mailbag.com please do not read any implications into my e-mail address.
see below:
Subject: Co founder of Brown & Bigelow
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:55:19 -0700
From: Lynn Glocker Condley < condley@pacbell.net >
Dear Mr. Bigelow,
I came across your web site and am curious to know if you know of all the founders of Brown & Bigelow. My great grandfather was George Linton Swift. Co-founder of Brown & Bigelow. He was listed as in charge of all manufacturing
in 1908. His obituary reads in part....."He was one of the founders of the institution. Mr. Swift was well known in manufacturing circle of the northwest."
George L. Swift had a son named after Herbert Bigelow. His name was Herbert Bigelow Swift. In turn Herbert B. Swift had a son Herbert B. Swift Jr. Known as "Bud". Bud Swift passed away June 10, 1999 at the age of 70.
All of his children have passed on, but he does have 3 grandchildren still living, my Uncle Clarke Taube, who was born and raised in Mpls, MN. He is 85 years of age and now resides in Tryon, North Carolina, (Clarke's sister Janet was my mother, she passed on March 22,1 998.). Also there is Peggy Swift Smith and Marlyn Swift Landgren. Peggy resides in Arizona and Lyn resides in California. As do I.
I would be happy to keep digging for information for you.
You can visit my web page at http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/GlockerCondley
or just go to the page that has a photo of George L. Swift: http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/GlockerCondley/GeorgeLintonSwift.htm
I would love to be able to have our web sites linked together for further information.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Lynn Glocker Condley
see Herbert Huse ⁹ Bigelow..............................ROD

Subject: Elizabeth Fuller and Samuel Bigelow, 1781, of Whitehall, NY
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:03:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Belinda Tantalo < btantalo@yahoo.com >
I found your site a few weeks by lucky chance searching for information on Elizabeth Fuller. I find the Hopestill Bigelow letter concerning her father Aaron Fuller fascinating. http://bigelow.simplenet.com/Hopestill_letter.html

This is a little off the beaten track for you, but do you know of anyone researching the Aaron Fuller/Rebecca marriage. The Hopestill letter refers to 8 children in this marriage (Elizabeth holding a blanket over 5 little ones in the woods, while her 2 older brothers are off to fight in the war, and mother is back home holding an infant = 8). The problem here is that all the records I've come across list only four, Robert, Ephraim, Elizabeth, and Aaron. So who are the other children? Did they die before
reaching maturity? Did Aaron and Rebecca have more children after the events described in the letter?
Anyway, that's one of the angles which has been consuming so much of my time. I hope you keep me in mind if you come across anyone or thing which can help me answer these and other questions. Thanks, Belinda Tantalo
also see Hopestill ⁴ and Samuel ⁵ Bigelow....................................ROD

Subject: Bigelow Lawrence
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:24:01 EST
From: MEPopyk@aol.com

Hi there, we spoke several years ago. My ancestor Bigelow Lawrence was named after his mother Patience Bigelow. I wanted to let you know my new screen name, it used to me MareBear64. I am still very much interested in the Lawrence/Bigelow genealogy and would like to keep in touch with anyone from my line. Mary
see Patience ⁴ Bigelow and Bigelow ⁵ Lawrence ..............................ROD

Post by: Tim Cadden caddone1@aol.com
Date: November 21, 2000 at 21:24:00
15337.15 Noah Scott Bigelow son of Noah Bigelow and Cynthia Scott born about 1800 in Woodford, Bennington, VT. Is Cynthia Scott the daughter of Matthew Scott and Sarah Snow Scott of Woodford, Bennington, VT? You also list Cynthia
Scott's brother as Matthew Scott (son of Matthew and Sarah Scott) who served in war of 1812. Cynthia Scott was born June 8, 1775. Do you have any further information on Noah Bigelow and Cynthia Scott??
see Noah ⁶ Bigelow................11/26/00 Tim sent new info...............ROD

Subject: J. Alvin Bigelow
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:46:00 -0500
From: Dennis Beach dbeach@mail.newnanutilities.org

We have been enjoying the Bigelow geneology--particularily the J. Alvin line. He was my great great grandfather. However we cannot reach the son, Glenn Nelson site (http://bigelow.simplenet.com/rod7/nel03126.htm) fixed
Can you fix it for us? Do you have any other information about Herbert H., youngest son of J. Alvin? NO.......ROD
Thank you, Dennis Beach

Subject: Warner-Harrington Ancestry
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:07:43 -0500
From: Ellen W Jones <   ewjgen@juno.com   >

Since I last e-mailed you I have been able to locate the book I asked you about. The exact title is: "The ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner" by Frederick Chester Warner. A sub-title is "The Warner-Harrington Ancestry". I am giving you the locations just in case anyone else should e-mail you, asking for it.
        Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado
        Connecticut State Library
        Allen City Public Library in Indiana
        Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, MA 02117-0286
        C/W Mars Library, One Sunet Lane, Paxton, MA 01612-1105
        Jones Library, 43 Amity Street, Amherst, MA 01002 (this is near Springfield, MA)
        Noble, Inc. - Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, 345 Main Street, Wakefield, MA 01888
        Springfield City Library in Springfield, MA

I hope this might help out someone. Again thanks for checking for me. Sincerely, Ellen Jones

Subject: Questions
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 02:08:13 -0800
From: "P. Steer" < blsteer@dccnet.com >
Hi!
After about 15 years I have pulled out my genealogy research and have come across my grandfather's Bigelow Society papers.
Amongst them was a letter which makes reference to a second book being put together. Can you tell me if this book was ever done and whether or not I can get copies of the 1st and 2nd books? Are there more than 2 books? I am copying my genealogy and giving it to nieces and nephews and I would like to give them these books as well. My grandfather was A.A.Mason of Verdun Que, going back to his mother Melinde Bigelow, to Adam Chester Bigelow, to Adam Chester Bigelow (the 1st), to Cornelius and Persis (Harris) Bigelow.
I would also like information on registering with the Society from here in Canada, if fees must be paid in US or can be paid in CDN $, and how I can order any already printed genealogy for the Bigelow lines.
Thanks so much in advance for you help. Please send responses to this email to email address blackwood82@hotmail.com,
Yours truly,
Brenda (Mason) Steer
see Bigelow Society page for Treasurer address..........................ROD
Bigelow Society has:
Victoria MASON, dau of Joseph Mason and Melina (Melinde?) Bigelow, b 25 Nov 1899
m 31 July 1910 Garnet Wolsey Bigelow,
b 24 May 1899 Glen Almond, Papineau, Quebec, Canada; d 17 June 1953 Glen Almond
CHILDREN:
1.Irene Viola BIGELOW, b 14 July 1920 Glen Almond
2.Doris BIGELOW, b 20 Sep 1921 Glen Almond
3.Lionel Garnet BIGELOW, b 3 Apr 1923 Glen Almond; m Shirley Brown; 1 son David Bigelow known.
see Adam Chester ⁸ Bigelow...........................................ROD

Subject: Dorthea Dix
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:31:27 -0600
From: "Kevin & Joann Logsdon" < jlogsdon@soltec.net >

My name is Janie Logsdon and I came upon your site about Dorthea Dix I was wondering if you were able to find a copy of Dix's work. I cannot find "The Garland of Flora" or "Prisons and Prison Discipline" anywhere on the internet. Everything comes up as a prison match or a Dorthea Dix match. If you can help in anyway I would greatly appreciate it.
Please send an info to joany01@yahoo.com Thanks
see Dorthea Dix ..................................................ROD

Subject: Bigelow Obituaries
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 13:49:31 -0500
From:   "Susan B. Miller" < suemiller1osg@erols.com >
Dear Rod,
    I'm sending the obituaries of Donald Bigelow Sr. and his wife Ruth Bigelow. Ruth died 3 May 2000.
Don Sr. 3 November 2000. This is a sad time for this Bigelow family.
Sincerely,   Susan Bigelow Miller
These are parents of Don Bigelow, jr. who died in 1998. see John ¹⁰Bigelow...........ROD

Subject: Warner-Harrington Ancestry
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:28:44 -0500
From: Ellen W Jones < ewjgen@juno.com >
Hello Rod Bigelow,
I am trying to locate a copy of the "Warner-Harrington Ancestry" written by Frederick Chester Warner, c1949. Would you please let me know where you found the five volume set, that was used as a reference in your ancestry. I would greatly appreciate it.
The book was written by my grandfather. There were only a dozen or so copies made originally. At least that is my understanding. My mother has one copy but she is five or six hour drive one way. One other copy is at the Denver Public
Library, which my Uncle donated to them. Which is also way to far to travel, since I live in southern New Hampshire. I am just getting started in doing the family genealogy.
Thank you very much.Sincerely,
Ellen Jones
ewjgen@juno.com
I hope somebody can help on this...(see above)..................................................ROD

Subject: Bigelow information
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:22:15 -0500
From: Brian Tabor <   brian1956@aol.com   >

Hello Mr. Bigelow,
I visit your vast website often. I have some relatives of mine who are related to the Essex / Boquet, NY Bigelows. I found some had moved to Vermont. The following information is all from VT State Vital Records, Middlesex, VT-
Charles R. Bigelow - (your number 15146.22A1) , b. ca. 1878 Westport, NY. m. Eva May Conger, b. 4-3-1880 at Keeseville, NY, d. 12-29-1932 Burlington, VT-Fanny Allen Hospital, dau. of William Henry Conger; wife of Charles R. Bigelow. Housewife, own home, resided. Westford, Vt. Informant: Charles William Bigelow, Westford, Vt.   Cause of death: 1. Mitral senaris; 2. Congestive cardiac failure.
2 known children:
a. William C. Bigelow, b. Shelburne, VT ca 1905, m. 9-8-1937 at Westford, VT to Ida May Gifford Champagne.   They had a son, William Charles Bigelow Jr., b. at Westford 5-20-1938.
b. Charles Earl Bigelow, b. 9-30-1913 Shelburne, VT. (birth record says father Charles R. Bigelow, age 35, b. Westport, NY; mother Eva May Conger, age 33, b. Keeseville, NY).
I came across this information as although I am not related to this family, I thought you would like to have it for your web site.
The Vermont Bigelows I am related to is that of William Bigelow, son of Clark & Ruby (Sherman) Bigelow. His family moved to Johnson & Milton, VT. I am descended from Ruby Sherman's brother, Titus G. Sherman. I have more on the Clark Bigelow family if you would like it.Sincerely, Brian Tabor - Northampton, MA    Brian1956@aol.com
see Edwin Charles ⁸ Bigelow....................................ROD

Subject: Two Orville Bigelows
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 10:28:28 -0500
From: Janet Wilhelm < jlwilh@mediaone.net >
Rod - Just a brief follow-up on my e-mail of last month regarding my gt.-gt.-uncle Orville A.(8)(16164.14B), son of
Ransom ⁷, who was reported as having married Louisa T. Russell, when family stories have him marrying Luancia Ellithorpe in 1875. I have found, by following through the info you have from Howe on the web-site, that there was another Orville, who is also listed as marrying Louisa T. Russell, and I believe that this is the actual marriage:
Orville C. (7)(16164.89), son of Ebenezer ⁶ (16164.8), would have been first cousin to my Orville's father, Ransom ⁷ (16164.14), and was listed on Ebenezer ⁶ page as having married this Louisa Russell, who was b. 1845, d. 1908. Ironically, Orville C. and Orville A. both are listed as having died in 1915, with the date for Orville C.'s death stated as 1 Apr. 1915 (April Fool's Day!).
Weather permitting, my two very elderly aunts and I will be making a tour of Crown Point, esp. of White Church Cem., for Veteran's Day. We'll try to get as much information as possible from the grave markers there, although I'm sure the marriage records for Orville A. and my gt.-grand- father, Ashley (and their brides Lasira and Luancia Ellithorpe) will be found in the Town Clerk's office in either Cr. Pt., NY or Bridport, VT (where the Ellithorpe family lived in 1875). I hope to make a winter side-trip, mid-week during one of my hockey weekend ventures to VT, to those Town offices to do research, so I can absolutely verify information I've given you earlier.
By the way, any chance you could get the other links on Ransom ⁷ (16164.14) working? There are about 5 more that respond with Ooops! Thanks, and best wishes,
STANTON WARREN BIGELOW (11)
see links above..................................ROD

Subject: Elizabeth Winthrop
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:20:20 -0500
From: Coline Jenkins-Sahlin < cocococo@juno.com >
Thank you so much for mentioning our TV production on Elizabeth Winthrop. The June 2000 premiere in Old Greenwich Connecticut, the town founded by Elizabeth, was a smashing success. Dozens of her descendants flew in for the premiere and
toured historic sites associated with Elizabeth.
Now that the premiere is past, would you kindly update the web site with this new text information and photo. In this e-mail I have attached a copy of the video jacket of the Elizabeth Winthrop documentary. The program tells of Elizabeth arriving on
the shores of America in 1631. She, like many colonial women, exhibited remarkable courage in the face of tremendous adversity. Her work, and that of other women in New England, help build a nation. The program is NOT historical
fiction, but is peppered with commentary by America's foremost historian on colonial women. It runs 28 minutes and has aired on Public Broadcasting. It can be ordered e-mailing Third Wave TV (cocococo@juno.com.)
Many thanks for spreading the history of the great Winthrop family.
Coline Jenkins-Sahlin
Producer Third Wave TV cocococo@juno.com
see Winthrop Woman page.........................................ROD

Subject: Caroline Bigelow Gregorovius
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:17:23 -0400
From: "Pat Zima" < patz@inna.net >

Quite by accident I stumbled upon your web page as I was researching my Grandfathers uncle, Ferdinand Gregorovius. I thank you for the information on D. F. Bigelow and Folger Bigelow. Aunt Caroline had given one oil painting to me and I inherited three others when my aunt, Dorothy Gregorovius died. I guess I should have begun by saying that George Gregorovius was my mother's brother.
We have lost touch and assume that Caroline has passed away. Is she buried with George in Plattsburgh?
Pat Zima or patz@inna.net
I don't know; see Daniel Folger ⁷ Bigelow...............................ROD

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