Children of Daniel and Ellen (Spicer) Bigelow:
1592C.15A1 Mary Spicer, b 19 Apr 1894; d ____ ; m 13 July
1915 Herbert H. Sommerfeld; no children known.
1592C.15A2 Waity, b 01 Nov 1895 ; d 21 Apr 1980; m Edwin
Sommerfeld;
1592C.15A3 Edgar, b 26 May 1897 ; d _ 1931 ; he was killed in an airplane crash.
1592C.15A4 Howard, b 24 Oct 1900; d 23 Jan 1951; m Anna Elizabeth Sayer, b 08 May 1900; d 05 Jan 1992 Berkeley Springs, WV; (see below)(and below)
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg
425;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
family records of descendants;
Bigelow Society records.
Material sent to Bigelow Society by the Western Bigelow Society,
Canada;
Note:
Howard killed by wounded elephant in Africa. Both he and
wife left the U.S., from
LA, CA to become missionaries in 1929, stationed at Lake
Kivu,Belgian Congo.
3 children including Don Bigelow.
FORGE, October 1979, Vol.8, #4, p.74 states he was
b. 1880s-1890s. They translated the Bible according to St.
Mark into the
African language used by the Congo natives. Howard was asked
by Howard Hill,
great archer and film producer, to accompany him in Africa to
produce the film
later called "Tembo" a documentary and adventure film showing that
an adult
elephant could be taken with a bow and arrow. Bigelow did
most of the game
hunting for this production and as such as a licensed hunter and
guide. Plans
were made at the conclusion of the film-shooting, Bigelow would
leave Lake Kivu
for a mission at Costermansville, about 85 miles distant.
Anna still in the US
would take the H.M.S. Queen Mary from NY to Paris, then fly to
Africa to join
Howard. On 23 Jan 1951, Howard, realizing he could still
take one elephant
according to the permit he held for the Hill expedition, decided
to use this to
assist two young native friends. The young couple, quite
impoverished, needed
a little money in order to marry. Sale of a pair of elephant
tusks would bring
them about $90. Therefore, Howard Bigelow and some native
friends set out into
the bush country to take an elephant. About dusk they
spotted an elephant down
in a river valley. Howard fired 5 shots from the ridge but
only wounded the
animal. He fired a 6th shot the same time the elephant
spotted Howard and
chased him. Tall grass hampered Howard Bigelow's escape and
the elephant
caught up with him. He hit Howard with its trunk then put
its one and only
tusk through Howard's mid section, picked him up and threw him
into the air.
Howard died and the elephant's body was found the next day about 2
miles up
river. FORGE article written by members of the Western
Bigelow Society.
New info from Don and Glenna Bigelow < bigelowdg56@gmail.com >
Looking at the family
genealogy for Howard Bigelow (Daniel 8 Bigelow), we note the
date for Howard's birth is ......1920. Actual birthdate is
October 24, 1900. Anna Elizabeth Sayer Bigelow’s birthdate
is May 8, 1900. Howard died on January 24, 1951 as
described, by the elephant. Anna died in Berkeley Springs,
WV on January 5, 1992.
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