They are both buried in Saint Albans Village Cemetery; Saint Albans, Somerset co, ME below:
16251.25A1 Alfred Payson, b 30 June 1870 St. Albans; d __ 1951 ; m 22 Oct 1890 Mabel H. Frost; 1 child: Gladys Maud Bigelow, b 20 June 1892 St. Albans, ME.
16251.25A2 Jennie Caroline, b 09 Aug 1874 St. Albans; d 20 June 1890;
16251.25A3 William Melvin, b 24 June
1876; d __ 1939 ; m_____ Katherine Smith (b 16 June 1875
England; d 1971); Res. Pittsfield,, ME.
They are both buried in Saint Albans Village Cemetery; Saint Albans,
Somerset co, ME below:
Sources:
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume II, page 481;
Abbe Genealogy, 1913;
vital records ME.
New Note
2016:
John Paul Beall, the great-great-grandson of John E. Colthurst, sent a
letter to me and mentioned that he had seen the same photo on his wall
growing up and posed a few questions. He also provided information not
previously known to put me into research mode. John Colthurst daughter
(Rita in the photo) married Ross Allen Beall, which linked John Beall
to this family photo. Now, the woman labeled Mrs. William M. Bigelow in
the photo is Katherine Smith and her relative? Margaret Mather Smith
was the wife of John Edmund Colthurst, Sr pictured in the back row. The
Smith women could not be sisters; Margaret born 04 May 1875 in MA, and
Katherine born 16 June 1875 England
This is a picture of John Edmund Colthurst in later years and a short bio:
John
Edmund
Colthurst, U.S. Navy
A
veteran of the
Spainish-American War and WWI, Colthurst started a naval tradition in
his
family. He is remembered by John Paul Beall.
John
Edmund
Colthurst was born in Chicago November 29, 1871 in the South Loop, just
a few
blocks away from where the Great Fire had passed a month prior. He
joined the
Navy at Mare Island in California in 1893 and served as a yeoman on
various
ships in Admiral George Dewey's Asiatic Squadron. He was in
Vladivostok, Russia
for the coronation celebration of Tsar Nicholas II. He eventually
became Yeoman
Second Class on Admiral Dewey's flagship, USS
Olympia,
serving directly under Captain Charles Gridley. He was with
Gridley when the order to open fire on Manila Bay, Philippines was
given. He
earned the Battle of Manila Bay Medal, also known as the Dewey Medal,
for his
service in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. After the
war
ended, he wrote a book, The
Dewey
Souvenir,
about his
experiences in the Asiatic Squadron and service under Admiral Dewey,
with whom
he kept correspondence. He served again in World War I as Paymaster for
the
Atlantic Fleet out of the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He
was also a
newspaperman and lawyer in peacetime and came to be elected Superior
Court
Justice of Solano County, California, accumulating some renown in the
California Bay Area as a jurist. He was also active in Veterans of
Foreign Wars
and American Legion chapters his entire life. He died in 1933, having
established a naval tradition in the Colthurst and Beall families of
California. His daughter was wife of Lt. Commander Thomas Oberrender,
and his
grandson was Commander Wallace Richardson Colthurst.
Judge John Edmund
Colthurst
From: Find A Grave
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Birth: |
1871 Illinois,
USA |
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Death: |
Jun. 24,
1930 Vallejo Solano
County California,
USA |
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Veteran of
Spanish American War and World War One. Colthurst
served aboard the the USS Olympia as a Yeoman Third Class. He was
awarded the Dewey Medal, named after Commodore George Dewey, for action
in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 during the Spanish American
War. Family
links: John
H Colthurst (____ - 1894) Hannah
Marie Colthurst (1844 - 1896) Spouse: Margaret
Mather Smith Colthurst (1875 - 1940) Children: Margaret
V Colthurst Beall (1900 - 1968)* (Rita) John
E Colthurst (1901 - 1979)* Wallace
Bernard Colthurst (1906 - 1978)* Muriel
Elinor Colthurst Oberrender (1907 - 1988)* Dorothy
V Colthurst Madigan (1908 - 1985)* Sterling
E Colthurst (1914 - 2002)* *Calculated relationship |
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Burial: Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery and Margaret Mather Smith Colthurst |
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Note:
Subject: James (7) Bigelow page
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:06:39 -0700
From: "David Upham" < d-upham@home.com >
http://bigelow.simplenet.com/rod/mel8125a.htm
is the link I was trying for when I got your "oops" page.
Dave Upham
Link provided by Janis Pahnke
janis222@sbcglobal.net
From: http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/cwdb/cwdb.object.details.aspx?handle=person&id=102059489
< rodbigelow@netzero.net
> 
