Nolton 7 BIGELOW
(see below) ca
1900
(see below) ca 1902
left to right Rod's guesses:
left to right Rod's
guesses
Sarah Ann (Foster) Bigelow, b ca 1850;
Sarah Ann (Foster) Bigelow, b ca 1850
child May ? b ca 189_;
child May?, b ca 189_;
Jennie (Walmsley) Bigelow, b ca 1867;
Samuel Foster Bigelow, b ca 1873;
Sarah (Parker) Foster (1819-1912)
child Florence F.?, b 1898:;
Sarah (Parker) Foster (1819-1912)
16C43.92 Nolton 7 BIGELOW, son
of Edmund 6
( Eleizer 5
, Joshua 4 , Eleazer 3 Joshua2, John1), and Eleanor
(BUTLER) BIGELOW, was born in Dutchess county, NY on 31 March 1848
married on 23 March 1871 in Oakland county, MI, Sarah Ann Foster. She
was the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Parker) Foster and bom about 1850
in MI. This family resided in Cass City, Tuscola, MI.
Children of Nolton and Sarah (Foster) Bigelow:
16C43.921 Samuel Foster, b ca 1873;
d _____ ; m Jennie Esther Walmsley. 5 children; (see below)
16C43.922 Frederick A., b 22
Oct 1878; d _____ ; m Caroline Fenn; one child: Eleanor E.
Bigelow, b. 11 Feb 1905; d 24 Sept 1995; m _____ Heath (see below)
16C43.923 Eleanor, b _____ ; d _____ ;
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. I page ;
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II page 283-284;
records of Bigelow Society from various sources.
Subject: 16C43.921
Samuel Foster
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:28:11 -0400
From: "Scott Barker" <sbarker3@ptd.net>
1900 census Cass, Tuscola County Michigan
1910 census Ekland, Tuscola County Michigan
The census records above note the following children to Samuel Foster
Bigelow and wife Jennie Esther Walmsley, all born in Michigan:
May b. 189_ ?
Florence F b. 1896/7
Alice F b. 1902
Andrew N b. 1904
Charles F b. 1909
More:
unknown parents:
Laura F Bigelow
1910 census age 10 relationship to head of house Nolton is not readable
b. MI f. NY m. MI which is the same as the rest of
Nolton's children.
The 1910 record is the only one where Laura "F" appears with this
family.
Laura M Bigelow
1920 census age 19 relationship to head of house Nolton is
granddaughter b. MI f. MI m. MI
1930 census age 29 relationship to head of house Eleanor is niece b.
MI f. MI m. MI
There are border crossing records and MI & SS Death Indexes which
either don't have a middle initial or the initial is F.
Laura F Bigelow b. May 1900 in MI d. 16 Nov 1975 in Cass, Tuscola
County Michigan. Her father was born in NY and mother was
b. in England.
The parental information from census records indicate these are
two different Lauras? Either way I could find no further
information
on either.
Scott
The date of the photo attached is a guess + - 5 years. The
caption for the photo says "L. Sarah FOSTER Bigelow, Nolton
Bigelow,child, child, (Sarah PARKER Foster?)"
What I know:
1. The photo was taken in a studio in Cass, Michigan
2. The male in the photo is too young, the period of his attire
would be out of date if this person is Nolton circa 1875.
3. Sarah Ann & Nolton Bigelow family lived in Cass until some
time after the 1910 census. The Samuel Bigelow family lived in
Cass, Michigan as well until some time after the 1910 census as well.
4. Sarah Foster b. 1819 in England who was Sarah Ann's mother
never lived in Cass, Michigan according to 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880,
1900, 1910 census records and her 1912 obituary.
5. Although Samuel's brother Frederick was living in Cass, MI he
did not have any children until 1905.
Conclusions:
1. Male in photo is most likely Samuel Foster Bigelow rather than
his father Nolton. The period of dress and age of the male make
the photo more likely to be taken in the late rather than early
Victorian age.
2. Older female is probably Sarah Foster (1819-1912) with the
photo being taken some time in the last decade of her life.
3. Younger female adult is most likely Samuel's mother and Sarah
Foster's daughter Sarah Ann who would have been 45-55 years old at the
time of the photo.
If conclusions above are correct then the two female children are most
Florence and May. Florence was b. 1896 and date of birth is
supported by multiple census records. May only shows up, along
with Florence in 1900
census and is not present in 1910 although the 1910 record notes 5
children born to Samuel's wife Jennie Esther. The records also
note the marriage of Samuel and Jennie abt 1896 so although possible
their was a
child prior to marriage it should be unlikely which makes the older
child Florence and younger child May and the photo taken prior to the
birth of third child Alice in 1902.
If anyone would like the images of the census records I can gladly send
them.
Subject: 16C43.922
Frederick A
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:25:04 -0400
From: "Scott Barker" <sbarker3@ptd.net>
1880 census Highland, Oakland, Michigan
1900 census Cass, Tuscola, Michigan
WWI Draft Registration
1920 census Elkland, Tuscola, Michigan
1930 census Cass City, Tuscola, Michigan
The records above note that Frederick was b. 22 Oct 1878
Frederick and Caroline Fenn Bigelow had one child:
Eleanor E b. 11 Feb 1905 d. 24 Sept 1995 m. __________ Heath
16C43.923 Eleanor
1900 census Cass Tuscola County Michigan
1910 census Elkland Tuscola County Michigan
1920 census Elkland Tuscola County Michigan
1930 census Cass Tuscola County Michigan
Social Security Death Index
The records above give us the birth and death dates for Eleanor E
Bigelow
Note from Janis Pahnke <
janis222@sbcglobal.net >
Dear Rod:
An email correspondent of mine sent me the attached picture
of Charles Nolton Bigelow's family. He is #16C43.73. She
thought it might be one in my line. He is not. The notation
on her email said:
Studio photo
Location:Cass City, Tuscola Co., Michigan, USA
Date: ca 1895
Attached to: . Sarah Parker (1819-1910)
.Sarah Ann Foster (1849 -)
.Charles Nolton Bigelow (1862 - 1939)
The photo was previously posted as Charles
Nolton
7 Bigelow ...................see below
The lovely photo on this page is not of Charles Nolton Bigelow who
married
Mary Maybee. It is Nolton Bigelow 1848-1924, son of Edmund James
Bigelow
and Eleanor Butler. This Nolton married Sarah Ann Foster
(1849-1928),
daughter of Samuel Foster and Sarah Parker. Sarah Parker's sister
Letitia
Parker married another Nolton Bigelow (1815-1864), son of Eleizer
Bigelow
and Lydia Spencer.
Nolton (1848) and Charles Nolton (1862) were first cousins.
On the Tuscola County web page you will find digitised images of some
of
the
newspapers and there are some interesting items on the Bigelow family
who
lived in that area. They owned a hardware store in Cass City for
many
years.
I am a Parker descendant and would be interested in any more
information
on
this family.
Barbara Lee Page
Courtenay BC
barbleepage@shaw.ca
History of Michigan by Moore pg
894-896;
Nolton Bigelow: For
more than a quarter of a century has Mr.
Bigelow been numbered among the progressive and representative
merchants of Cass City, Tuscola county, where he conducts a substantial
and extensive business as a dealer in hardware, stoves, ranges, farm
implements, etc. His two sons are now associated with him in the
enterprise and are well upholding the high prestige of the family name,
which has been most prominently and worthily linked with the civic and
business interests of Cass City and which stands exponent of the best
ideals of business activity.
Nolton Bigelow claims the old Empire state as
the place of his
nativity, but he has benn numbered among the honored pioneers of
Oakland county, where they established their home within ten years
after the admission of the state to the Union. He whose name initiates
this article was born in Dutchess county, New York, on the 31st of
March, 1848, and is a son of Edmund James Bigelow and Eleanor (Butler)
Bigelow, the former of whom was born in the state of New York and the
latter in England. Edmund J. Bigelow was reared and educated in
Dutchess county, New York, where his marriage was solemnized and where
he was employed in cotton mills. In 1847 he came to Michigan and
purchased a tract of land in Oakland county. After erecting a pioneer
log house, he returned to New York for his family, who forthwith came
with him to the new home. The family endured the vicissitudes of
pioneer life and the father reclaimed the land to cultivation, becoming
one of the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Oakland
county, where he reared his children to lives of usefulness and honor
and gave to them the best possible advantages. Edmund J. Bigelow was
the owner of one of the fine farms of Oakland county at the time of his
death and was seventy-five years of age when he was summoned to eternal
rest. His first wife, mother of the subject of this review, died in
1856, and his second wife survived him by a number of years. Of his six
children only two are now living, Nolton, of this review, and Mrs.
Marietta Chafee, who is the widow of John Chafee and who resides in the
city of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
To the pioneer schools of Oakland county,
Nolton Bigelow is indebted for his early educational privileges, and
this discipline was supplemented by his attending the public schools in
the city of Detroit for two and one-half years. His first independent
earnings were obtained through his labors as a farm hand in Oakland
county, and his work in this way was instituted when he was
eighteen years of age. Prior to that he had assisted in the work and
management of his father's farm, and he had waxed strong of mind and
body through the invigorating discipline involved. Finally he engaged
in farming on his own account, and he was a successful representative
of the great basic industry of agriculture, in Oakland county, until
1888, when he sold his interests there to turn his attention to
merchandising. In the year mentioned Mr. Bigelow left his farm and
removed to Cass City, Tuscola county. He had purchased a stock of
hardware and upon coming to Cass City he consolidated this with that of
James P. Howe, with whom he became associated with under the firm name
of Howe & Bigelow. Under such conditions was laid the foundation
for the large and prosperous business which he now controls and which
places him among the leading merchants of Tuscola county, where his
reputation for fair and honorable dealing has never been assailed and
constitutes his best commercial asset. At the expiration of seven years
Mr. Howe retired from the firm, his interest in the business being
purchased by his partner, Mr. Bigelow, who thereafter conducted the
enterprisein an individual way until he gave an interest in the
enterprise to each of his two sons, who have proved able coadjutors and
are known as energetic and popular young business men. Mr. Howe,
the former partner of Mr. Bigelow, is now a resident of California.
Modified - 11/11/2011
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