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Children of Elliot and Pearl (McIntyre) Bigelow:
15145.18511 Anna Augusta, b 26 Sept 1900 Hinkly,
Medina, OH; d _____ ; m 22 Oct 1922 Joseph James Mortimer (b 12 July
1898
Clarion co, PA; d 12 Mar 1978 Richfield, OH); 4 children: Eugene B.,
Genevieve E., Dale Joseph, and Gerald F. Mortimer;
15145.18512 Isabel Louise, b 20 Nov 1902 Hinkly, OH; d 10
May 1907 (1910?); buried at Maple Hill Cemetery, Hinckley;
15145.18513 John Chadwick, nee Novack, b ____ ;
d 19 Feb 1959 Pleasant Ridge, Oakland co, MI; m Roberta Bassett, b 13
Mar 1901; d 13 Nov 1924 Pensacola, FL obit; dau Barbara ;
15145.18514 Martin, nee Novack, b _____ ; d
______ ;
John Chadwick Bigelow, was an orphan at a Cleveland orphanage and
Elliot went there to get a boy who could help him on his small farm.
This was about 1910 or 1912. Later, he went back to get his brother
Martin.
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 309-310
child;
Records of Bigelow Society historian/genealogist;
early marriage records of Summit county OH;
correspondence with descendants.
manuscript of Anna (Bigelow) Mortimer,
printed in Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly, vol.8, no.3;
Letter to Bigelow Society Editor Patricia Bigelow from Anna M.
Mortimer (April 1981):
" Lena Bigelow, the dau of Orrin 9
Bigelow, married Abe Stouffer; resided Richfield, OH; 2 sons Vernon
and Gordon Stouffer founded Stouffer Foods (Frozen Foods and Stouffer
Restaurants)
There is a large estate about one mile from Richfield called " The
Stouffer Farm". After Abe Stouffer died, Lena married Roy Southworth of
Cleveland, OH. When she did, she changed her name to "Mahala" or
"Mahalia" Southworth after her grandmother Mahalia (Damon) Bigelow.
(Anna knew all of them:
Orrin, Luella West, Lydia Dunn, and Len throughout her chilhood
and they all attended the Bigelow Reunion pre 1981)"
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