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Mary Jane Bigelow[1, 2]

Female 1827 - 1868  (40 years)


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  • Name Mary Jane Bigelow 
    Born 15 Oct 1827  Lawrenceville, Lawrence, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Gender Female 
    Died 26 Sep 1868  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I12976  Main Tree
    Last Modified 28 Dec 2009 

    Father Nahum Bigelow,   b. 9 Feb 1785, Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1851, Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Mother Mary Gibbs,   b. 26 Jun 1809, Lisle, Broome, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1888, Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 12 Dec 1826  Lawrence, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F1933  Group Sheet

    Family 1 John Cook 
    Family ID F5184  Group Sheet

    Family 2 Brigham Young 
    Married 20 Mar 1847  Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Invalid sealing-to-spouse temple code: WQ.
    Family ID F4810  Group Sheet

    Family 3 Horace Roberts 
    Married 29 Sep 1852  Provo, Utah, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4811  Group Sheet

    Family 4 John Bair 
    Married 8 Apr 1856 
    Family ID F4812  Group Sheet

    Family 5 Daniel Durham Hunt 
    Married 14 Feb 1859 
    Family ID F4813  Group Sheet

    Family 6 Philander Bell 
    Married 9 Apr 1868 
    Children 
     1. Child Bell,   b. Apr 1868
    Family ID F1762  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • MARRIAGE: Mary Jane left the family of President Young and married again [Horace Roberts in 1852, John Bair in 1856, Daniel Durham Hunt in 1859, and Philander Bell in 1868], had only one child born after she was forty years old, leaving by her death an orphan at six months of age. The little one soon followed. Delicate in health, quiet, patient, yet sometimes with a rare quick impulsiveness of action that generally gave after pain. Mary Jane was truly a good , kind, and patient woman.

      ~Web_Links: History "A Sketch of Nahum Bigelow" by Susa Young Gates (Juvenile Instructor, 15 Apri l 1891) Granddaughter of Nahum Bigelow and Daughter of Brigham Young and Lucy Bigelow Young Edited by Dan Forward in 1997, a 3rd great-grandson of Nahum Bigelow. http://www.geocities.co m/Athens/Acropolis/1890/Nahum_Bigelow.htm

      MARRIAGE: Mary Jane left the family of President Young and married again [Horace Roberts in 1852, John Bair in 1856, Daniel Durham Hunt in 1859, and Philander Bell in 1868], had only one child born after she was forty years old, leaving by her death an orphan at six months of age. The little one soon followed. Delicate in health, quiet, patient, yet sometimes with a rare quick impulsiveness of action that generally gave after pain. Mary Jane was truly a good , kind, and patient woman.

  • Sources 
    1. [S290] The Story of Mary and Her People. I scanned this from a typed copy in a 3-ring binder, the o rigin of which I do not kno, Mary Bigelow Edwards, Their first child, Mary Jane Bigelow, was born 1827..

    2. [S1] Ancestral File (TM); FamilySearch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).

    3. [S283] Bigelow, Mary Gibbs -- Autobiography, Mary Gibbs Bigelow, (Scanned/retyped from a typewritten copy in possession of Velma Anderson of Spokane, WA by S. L. Rawlins), My oldest daughter was born the 15th day of October, 1827, following. It lacked two days of.

    4. [S284] Bigelow, Nahum (A Sketch of), Susa Young Gates, (Juvenile Instructor, 15 April 1891), http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1890/Nah., My oldest daughter was born the 15th day of October, 1827, following. It lacked two days of, THE first child was a girl named Mary Jane [b. October 15, 1827].