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Moroni Bigelow

Birth
Mercer County, Illinois, USA
Death
13 Apr 1870 (aged 29)
Ray County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Camden, Ray County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Moroni Bigelow is listed as the husband of Elvira Jane Mecham and father of Nahum Biglow (Bigelow) according to Provo City Cemetery records.

He is listed as the son of Nahum and Mary Gibbs Bigelow according to a biography on his father's Find A Grave Memorial #40670462.

He has notes attached to him on the Ewellfamily.org website NOTES: "Journal Histories, April 13, 1870, pg 1 HDC, The Deseret Evening News, Apr 23,1870, "Drowned on the river", "Which occurred between Camden and Wellington, Mo." "On the evening of the 13th, about half-past nine o'clock"
"The sad intelligence was communicated to the wife of Bro. Bigelow, residing in Provo, by Mr. R.H. McKay, clerk of the steamer, Mary McDonald, of which he was on board at the time of the malancholy event."

and

"The Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol I, by The Bigelow Society, 1986 pg 307, "Died on the Missouri River, between Camden and Welburn"; [Camden is not by the Missouri River and there is no such town as Welburn Missouri] NOTE:*There is a 'Welburn' neighborhood in Kansas City, Misosuri which might possibly be the reference in the article.

LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3, pg 598, "On a mission to the Eastern [States] Labor, on the night of April 13, 1870, as he was on the steamer, Mary McDonald, on the Mississippi River homeward bound, he accidently fell over board and was drowned."

* I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to verify this information, however, the above website has the fullest and detailed information regarding his life and death. According to the notes he is buried in Camden, Missouri.
Moroni Bigelow is listed as the husband of Elvira Jane Mecham and father of Nahum Biglow (Bigelow) according to Provo City Cemetery records.

He is listed as the son of Nahum and Mary Gibbs Bigelow according to a biography on his father's Find A Grave Memorial #40670462.

He has notes attached to him on the Ewellfamily.org website NOTES: "Journal Histories, April 13, 1870, pg 1 HDC, The Deseret Evening News, Apr 23,1870, "Drowned on the river", "Which occurred between Camden and Wellington, Mo." "On the evening of the 13th, about half-past nine o'clock"
"The sad intelligence was communicated to the wife of Bro. Bigelow, residing in Provo, by Mr. R.H. McKay, clerk of the steamer, Mary McDonald, of which he was on board at the time of the malancholy event."

and

"The Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol I, by The Bigelow Society, 1986 pg 307, "Died on the Missouri River, between Camden and Welburn"; [Camden is not by the Missouri River and there is no such town as Welburn Missouri] NOTE:*There is a 'Welburn' neighborhood in Kansas City, Misosuri which might possibly be the reference in the article.

LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3, pg 598, "On a mission to the Eastern [States] Labor, on the night of April 13, 1870, as he was on the steamer, Mary McDonald, on the Mississippi River homeward bound, he accidently fell over board and was drowned."

* I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to verify this information, however, the above website has the fullest and detailed information regarding his life and death. According to the notes he is buried in Camden, Missouri.


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