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Children of Lucius and Margaret (O'Donnell) Bigelow:
16B2A.271 Ida Jane, b ___ 1872; d ____ ;
16B2A.272 Albert Carrol, b ___ 1875; d ____ ;
16B2A.273 Mary Emeline, b ___ 1877; d ____ ;
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II; page 276-277;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
FORGE: The Bigelow Society Quarterly; Vol. 9, No. 2 April, 1980
FORGE: The Bigelow Society Quarterly;
Vol. 28
No.3.
Application of Caroline's descendants to Native Daughters of Golden
West
on file, Bigelow society Library.
Thompson and West, History of Sutter co, CA;
histories of Siskyou and Butte counties, CA;
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol.I";
histories of Butte and Siskiyou counties, CA;
census records CA;
descendants family records;
family Bibles;
correspondence with descendants of Marcus Bigelow;
The late Mrs. Ed (Pat) Bigelow's records;
Larry W. Campbell, 4741 7th Av., Sacramento 20, CA submitted group
sheets
before Vol. 1 and 2 were on computer. Marcus crossed the plains by
ox-cart
in 1857. A letter (Eugene's article) written by Marcus' older
brother
to Allen Bigelow and Emily Wallace, his parents, instructing them how
to
prepare for the transcontinental trip. Allen was then 55 and took
wife
and children to foot of Mt. Shasta in Northern CA, evidently taking the
Oregon
trail after crossing Utah and dropped into CA fm. the north and settled
in
Weed, a little community on the northeast slope of Mt. Shasta.
They
went into the logging business and were active in the manufacture of
lumber
during gold rush era. Then they moved to Gridley, 100 mi.south in
Sacramento
Valley and farmed. In their memory, BIGELOW FALLS on east slope
of
Mt.Shasta (near famous chalets later built by William R. Hurst) and
BIGELOW
ROAD, near Pennington not far from Gridley.
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