Heartwell 6 BIGELOW
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery; Concord, Middlesex County, MA
16815.8 Heartwell 6 BIGELOW ,
son of Elias 5 ( Joseph 4,
Joseph
3, Joshua 2, John 1), and Abigail
(MYRICK) BIGELOW
was born 03 June 1795 at Sterling, Worcester county, MA. He
married,
on
20 March 1821, Lavinia Jones of Lincoln. They lived in Concord, MA,
where
he
kept a tavern and accumulated "a
handsome property." (see below) He
died
there 21
October
1850/1. His widow died 22 Aug 1891.(see
below)
Children of Heartwell and Lavinia (Jones) Bigelow, all born
Concord,
Middlesex
co, MA:
16815.81t Henry
Heartwell, b 04 Sep 1822; d 18 July 1854 Chicago, IL;
m Mary Ann
Seaver; res Chicago, IL. 1 daughter.
16815.82t Ann Jones, b 23 June 1824; d 01
Jun 1911 (aged 86)
California;
m Benjamin Tolman (1822-1906 (aged 84)); buried Concord, MA. 1
daughter.
16815.83 Eliza Jane, b 28 Oct 1829;
d
____
; m Samuel D. Kent; res Concord, MA 3 children.
16815.84 John,
b 16 Oct 1832; d ____
Lake Maitland, FL; m (1) ____ Whiting, and (2) ____ Sturtevant. He
went
to TX during
the Rebellion, and lived there many years until after the close of
the
war,
then migrated first to AL, then to FL, where he kept a hotel at
Lake
Maitland,
and was killed by lightning.
16815.85 Abba Abby", b 13 Nov 1835;
d 14 Mar
1852 (aged 16).
16815.86 George, b 17 Nov 1842;
lived
with
his brother in TX and FL many yrs, but in 1889 was living Concord,
MA;
unmarried.
16815.87 Mary, b 24 Sept 1843; d 17
Sept
1847 (aged 4).
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol I page 342;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America.
Find a Grave
Lavinia Jones wife of
Hartwell; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery; Concord, Middlesex County, MA
From web:
Walden Pond
On October 4, 1844, Emerson wrote his
brother
William about his recent purchase of land at Walden Pond: “I have
lately added an absurdity or two to my usual ones, which I am
impatient
to tell you of. In one of my solitary wood-walks by Walden
Pond,
I met two or three men who told me they had come thither to sell
&
to buy a field, on which they wished me to bid as a purchaser.
As
it was on the shore of the pond, & now for years I had a sort of
daily occupancy in it, I bid on it, & bought it, eleven acres
for
$8.10 per acre. The next day I carried some of my well-beloved
gossips to the same place & they deciding that the field was not
good for anything, if Heartwell
Bigelow should cut down his pine-grove, I bought, for 125
dollars more, his pretty wood lot of 3 or 4 acres, and so am
landlord
& waterlord of 14 acres, more or less, on the shore of Walden …
”
Emerson’s purchase of land at Walden provided Henry Thoreau with the
opportunity
he had been looking for to live simply and self-sufficiently in
nature
and to devote himself to writing. Thoreau built a cabin on and
moved to Emerson’s Walden property in 1845.
Emerson himself took great pleasure in the peace and
beauty of Walden Pond and the Walden Woods. Edward Emerson
wrote
of his father’s enjoyment of the place: “The garden at home was
often a
hindrance and care, but he soon bought an estate which brought him
unmingled pleasure, first the grove of white pines on the shore of
Walden, and later the large tract on the farther shore running up to
a
rocky pinnacle from which he could look down on the Pond itself, and
on
the other side to the Lincoln woods and farms, Nobscot blue in the
South away beyond Fairhaven and the river gleaming in the afternoon
sun.” Emerson often walked to Walden with his children on
Sunday
afternoons.
In 1866 (a mere four years after Thoreau’s death), the
Fitchburg Railroad built an amusement park at Walden, on the side of
the pond nearest the railroad track. It featured picnic,
swimming, and athletic areas, boathouses, footpaths, swings,
see-saws,
merry-go-rounds, and pavilions for speakers. The construction
of
this complex distressed local people, Emerson included, who had
enjoyed
Walden in its undeveloped state.
Emerson’s poem “My Garden,” written about Walden and
the
surrounding area, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for
December, 1866 (Myerson E169). It was collected in May-Day
and Other Pieces (1867; Myerson A28).
Also:
Book by Susan Cheeve; "American Bloomsbury"
quote:
"..Emerson bought land (pine
grove)
from Heartwell Bigelow, where Thoreau set up his cottage on
Walden
Pond."
More from Web:
Bigelow, Heartwell. December 25, 1857, and November 22,
1858.
Henry David Thoreau made surveys for Mrs. Bigelow of a woodlot
near
Walden
Street east of the present Fairyland, and of the old woodlot which
had
belonged
to Caleb Bates, Senior.
Mrs. Bigelow's name appears on the surveys of Ebby Hubbard and
Abel
Brooks.
also see Thoreau page.
Modified - 04/11/2022
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