Bigelow, Ralph Ezra (9) page 2 = ralph9

Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume II page 313 - 314;
cemetery inscriptions Clinton and Essex co, NY;
2009 Note:
Subject: pictures
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:45:38 -0500
From: "Ralph\(TWMI\)" < rbigelow@twmi.rr.com >
Hi Rod, Just want to start by saying you do a great job with the site and everything.
My name is Ralph Howard Bigelow: born 7/23/48, Catskill, NY son of / Ralph Herbert Bigelow / Ralph Ezra Bigelow/ Wesley Bigelow (8th from John 1). I have attached a few pictures and was wondering if you could add them to the Ralph Ezra site. Thank you, Ralph (see below)

New Note:
Subject: Wesley Bigelow (8)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:01:26 -0400
From: "Carol Gallagher" < gallagherc@westelcom.com >
Hi Mr. Bigelow!
I am great-grandaughter of Wesley, and have in my possession his family Bible, several photo albums (Roy was an excellent amateur photographer), Martha Ellen Andrews scrap book, and several pieces of needlework done by various family members. Can send information to fill in the blanks on this page and add several more generations if you would like me to do so. Also could scan photos if desired. My mother - now 88 years old, but with excellent memory, remembers both Wesley and Martha Ellen. I, myself, remember most of the children. My Aunt Maude (Julia Maude) kept entries in family Bible up to date as long as she lived.
Thanks for providing this excellent web site!
Carol Gallagher < gallagherc@westelcom.com
some of the new info is from Carol..............Thanks........................ROD

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.

Correspondence Schuyler Falls Historical Society which includes following:
..... The family farm of 200 acres near Keeseville overlooked Lake Champlain. It was cut from the wilderness in 1774 by a Mr. Whitney, who either married a Bigelow girl or was a relative of some sort and sold to Wesley Bigelow when he was discharged from Union Army 8 Aug 1864 or 1865. The farm had been in the family for over 100 years when sold in summer of 1967.
( Deed research needed)

The Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at Shelburne, VT. It completed 43 seasons of operation in 1953, and in 1955 the last of the paddle boats was transported to the Shelburne Museum. There she was restored to pristine condition. A new generation of travelers wearing goggles and clutching Blue Books were raising dust along the roads to the ferry landings. Clearly steam and gasoline had to mix. In 1925 the iron-hulled Chateaugay, laid up for several years at Shelburne Harbor for want of business, was shorn of part of her stateroom hall and cabins fore and aft to make room for cars. The Ticonderoga abandoned the Westport-St. Albans run to join the Chateaugay on the shuttle between Burlington and Port Kent. Older travelers will recall driving over the perilously narrow gangplanks of the Ticonderoga, having the air let out of their tires or deckhands stand on the running boards so that their high-bodied vehicles would not strike the ceiling of the forward promenade deck; having the gas temporarily drained out of their tanks and their cars jockeyed about between the stanchions and backed up as far as the paddleshaft on either side of the engine room. In the course of her daily run to the train connection at Montcalm Landing even the proud Vermont III, famished for through-passengers, took on cars at Plattsburgh and Burlington.
There were a few days of glory for one of the steamers during the flood of 1927 when Vermont rivers wrought almost total havoc on railroad and highway bridges. The Chateaugay was the only link between northern Vermont and New York. For two weeks her boilers were never given a chance to cool as she plowed through swollen waters mined with floating trees, barns and dead cows. Loaded to the guards with beef, cement, lumber, mail and Red Cross supplies, she had no room, according to Captain John Montgomery, "to put a chicken on her anywhere."

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