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Children of Eli Spencer and Mary (Beck) Bigelow:
16314.49311t Robert Beck, b 21 July 1879 Potter
Valley,
CA; d 24 Feb 1928 Winters, Yolo co, CA; m 02 July 1907 Blanche Edna
Brooks
(1875-1929); 4 children; (see
below)
16314.49312 Charles Spencer, b 16 June 1882 Colfax,
Whitman co, WA; d 12 Sept 1912 Bishop, Inyo co, CA; unmarried
16314.49313 Kate, b 05 May 1885 Colfax, WA; d 30 Oct 1984 Berkeley, Alameda co, CA; m 18 Sept 1918 Guy Jedson Montegue; (see below)
16314.49314 George Alfred, b 21 (29?) Apr 1888 Colfax, WA; d 05 May 1956 Reno, Washoe co, NV; m 21 Apr 1934 Mrs. Nellie Rosetta (Clinton) Conger ; (see below)
16314.49315 William Edwin "Bill", b 14 June 1891 Colfax, WA; d 26 Feb 1968 Big Pine, Inyo co, CA; m 25 Dec 1919 Lucile (Lulu) Creasey; no children (see below)
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy ;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
pioneer records of Sawyer's Bar, CA;
Bigelow Society Library files of Research done by Loring Bigelow;
correspondence with descendants;
Christmas card to Laurel from Kate Bigelow Montegue; 2924 Claremont Ave
#4;
Berkeley, CA 94705 (unknown date)
Laurel Barklow, one of the early researchers in the Bigelow
Society,
did a lot of research on this Family.
She corresponded with the descendants and acquired the information here
presented
Obituary in the Inyo Register;
Bishop,
Inyo co, CA:
E.S. Bigelow passed away Saturday, at the home of
Mrs.
M.J. Larson, in Bishop. He was a natve of New York, aged 78 years.
Mr. Bigelow and family came here from Washington
something
over twenty years ago. Locating on ranch property south of Poleta, they
developed
it to the strongest proof of what energy and well-studied methods can
do
on valley lands. The alfalfa production of the property, under those
methods,
was an oft-quoted local record. More recently, the ranch has been
leased
to others.
In his enforced retirement from every-day affairs,
and
now in his demise, the community loses an observer and a thinking
disciple
of better material and moral things. Mr. Bigelow's isolation prevented
his
direct participation in community affairs, but his influence and his
pen
were constantly for whatever that would build up the valley's
prosperity
and make it more desirable from every standpoint. His personal life and
integrity
were consistent with this in every detail.
Eli's wife, a daughter, Mrs. Guy Montague, of
Topaz,
Mono county, and two sons, Robert B. Bigelow, of Winters, CA; and Will
Bigelow
lately back from the service in the Navy, survive him.
This obituary was found in the Big Soc Library, and was sent to
Laurel
Barklow in 1972. Sent by the County Librarian of Inyo
county.................ROD
16314.49313
Kate
Bigelow, b 05 May 1885 Colfax, WA; d 30 Oct 1984 Berkeley, Alameda
co,
CA; m 18 Sept 1918 Guy Jedson Montegue; (he b 27 July 1881 Des Moines,
IA;
d 03 June 1962 California; bur San Francisco); no children. Occupation
listed
for Guy: Writer and teacher, attended Univ of California; Episcopal
Denom.
Parents of Guy: Leroy and Arvilla (Hess) Montegue; m 1878 in Iowa;
16314.49314 George Alfred Bigelow, b 29 Apr 1888 Colfax, WA; d 05 May 1956 Reno, Washoe co, NV; m 21 Apr 1934 Nellie Rosetta (Clinton) Conger at Reno, NV; (she b 20 Sept 1890 Myrtle Point, OR, the dau of Jonathan Dewitt and Rebecca Ann (Swafford) Clinton; she was married previously to Jim Conger on 11 July 1907 at Lee, Coss co, OR, and had four children;
16314.49315 William Edwin "Bill" Bigelow, b 14 June 1891 Colfax, WA; He was a Power Operator and in the Navy during WWI; d 26 Feb 1968 Big Pine, Inyo co, CA; m 25 Dec 1919 Lucile (Lulu) Creasey at San Francisco; (she b 13 July 1900 Mendocino, CA, dau of Aldis Harrison and Ida (Wilson) Creasey); no children;
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