Horace Otis 8 BIGELOW
Children of Horace Otis and Adeline (Phillips) Bigelow:
16355.1511 Olney Bacchus, b 15 Sept 1848 Clyman, Dodge, WI; d 19 Feb 1864 Bridgeport, AL (not quite 16 in Civil War).(see below)
16355.1512 Francis Zebulon, b 06 Nov 1852 Clyman; d 31 May 1853 North Chili, NY.
Children of Horace and Mary (Phillips) Bigelow:
16355.1513t Adaline Amanda, b 16 May
1854 Dundee, Monroe, MI; d 10 Jan 1918 Pleasanton, CA; m 23 June
1880 Dr. Calvin Case; 3 children.(see
below)
16355.1514t Frances Elizabeth, b 30 March 1856 Blissfield, Lenawee, MI; d 22 April 1922 Detroit; m 23 August 1888 at Shepard, MI John D. McKenna; 2 children.
16355.1515t Chandler Burdette, b 08 July 1859 Coe; d 10 Dec 1923 CA; m (1) unknown date Minnie C. Hoy, she d 12 Jan 1890, 2 children, m (2) 06 June1895 at CA, Cornelia V. Woodard, 1 child.
16355.1516 Zebulon Eber, b 23 Feb 1862 Coe Township, MI; d 10 May 1891 Isabella co, MI; unmarried.
16355.1517t Horace Olney, b 21 Dec 1865 Coe; d 16 Oct 1929 Tacoma, WA; m ca 1887 in MI, Iva May Clark; res. Aberdeen and Tacoma, WA; 3 children.
Children of Horace Otis and Lizzie Gertrude (Wing) Bigelow:
16355.1518t Imogene Wing, b 29 Apr 1896, Shepherd, MI; d_____; m 02 March 1918 Flint, MI, Thomas Grady Hicks; res. Detroit and FL; 3 children.
16355.1519t Clara Pauline, b 09 March 1898 Shepherd; d_____; m (1) MauriceW. Curtis, div. 1923, 1 child, m (2) 04 Oct 1945 Harold Milton Bigelow, son of Samuel and Hattie (Pollard) Bigelow, d 24 May 1970 So. Daytona, FL.
16355.151At Harold Sears, b 12 July 1901 Shepard; d 22 Jan 1980 Ann Arbor, MI; m 0l Jan 1925 Flushing, MI Wilhelmina Brown Donley; res. Flint, MI; 5 children.
16355.151Bt Madeline, b ____ ; d _____ ; m George DeWitt; 5 children: Vernadett, Willam, Wayne, Norman and Helena M. DeWitt. ( Helena M. DeWitt was treasurer of the Bigelow Society for many years; She was born 08 Sept 1916 Flint, Genesee co, MI; She married in 1961 Paul Roth, who had died before 2003, when Helena died 12 Jan 2003 Flint, MI)
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II page 508-509;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Descendants of Horace Otis Bigelow, by Harold Sears
Bigelow, pub 1973;
Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly; vol 29, no 1; Jan
2000.
Forge Notes:
16355.1511 R26388, Olney Backus Bigelow, first son of Horace
Otis Bigelow (Chandler Butler, Otis, Otis, Asa, John, Joshua,
John) and first wife Adeline Phillips, d/o Zebulon and Sophia
(Scribner) Phillips. Olney was born 15 Sep 1848 in Clyman,
Dodge co., WI?. No wife is listed. Olney died in the Civil
War at Bridgeport, ALA, 19 Feb 1864. Forge article states Olney
went with his father, Horace Otis Bigelow and mother Adaline
(Phillips), to the frontier in Wisconsin. There his mother
gave birth to an infant boy, and died soon after. Horace
took his young son and the new baby back to New York. The
baby died on the way, so Olney was the only remaining child of
"Grandfather Horace's first wife Adaline. In New York,
Horace married again, to Mary Phillips, sister of his first
wife. With Olney, they moved to Shepherd, MI. There he
planted an apple orchard and farmed the land when it was little
more than a frontier. Indians were common visitors on the byways
of the new settlement, then called Salt River. There Olney grew up
in the home of his new mother, along with many new brothers and
sisters. Theirs was a two story brick house with a comfortable
front porch, ornamental woodwork, a gabled roof and a large
yard. Then the civil War erupted in America when Olney was
15 years old. He went to war and died in the beautiful
mountains of northeastern Alabama.
He was not quite 16 when he died in Civil
War. FORGE article January 2000, Vol.29, No.1, page 7, for
Olney's last days before he died and letters. Author of the
article by Joanne (Hicks) Godwin, states: "That Olney's
letters eventually fell to my family's keeping was only on the
strength of his father's long life and third marriage. For,
years after Olney had died, his second mother, Mary Bigelow
sickened. A woman was needed to take care of her and to
clean and run the farm home. Lizzie Wing stepped into the
position and cared for Mary with tenderness. A friendship
followed between them that is preserved until this day in our
family's recollections, long afterthese two old friends have
passed away and rest together in Horace's plot in the cemetery at
Shepherd. For, sometime after Mary's death, Horace married
her friend and housekeeper, Lizzie Wing. He was over 70 years old
when he started his third family and my mother was the first child
born to Horace and Lizzie.".........."l32 years after Olney's
death, my sister, Virginia Hicks Martin, and our cousins, Jackie
Bigelow Woods, June Bigelow Hicks and Sue Ellen Bigelow Dallis,
and I can all say we are just one generation removed from the
Civil War and Olney, our Civil War soldier..." Submitted by
Jacqueline Bigelow Woods.
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