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David Bigler
Born: Bef.1775 PA Died: After 1820 Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN |
FATHER
unknown
MOTHER
unknown
WIFE
unknown (born in Scotland)
David Bigler
by Susan Brooke
Nov 2022
According to the 1880 census of his daughter, Eleanor Bigler Harbaugh, David Bigler was born in Pennsylvania and his wife born in Scotland.
An obituary of Eleanor Harbaugh says her parents were were keeping a hotel on Water Street in New York when their
daughter, Eleanor, was born (about 1807). (1) Supposedly David and
his family came to Madison, Jefferson
County, Indiana via Pittsburgh and the Ohio River when Eleanor was 6 (about 1813).
(2) Two of his brothers may have gone to St. Louis. All this was
information was obtained from the obituaries on Eleanor Bigler Harbaugh.
It
is assumed he was the father of Eleanor due to his being in Madison at the same
time. David "Bigger" was on the
Mounted Rangers list of 1813. (3) He was also on the tax list
of Madison in 1816. (4) In the 1820 census record for Madison he was
listed with a woman 26 - 45
and a female 10-16. And, Eleanor Bigler Harbaugh named her first son,
"David."
Sources
(1) From the Madison Courier, Feb. 9, 1893(2) Madison Daily Herald
9 Feb 1893
Mrs. Harbaugh Dead
Mrs. Lenora Harbaugh, widow of the late Jacob
Harbaugh, died at her home on East First street at 5 o'clock last evening of
old age. She did not know her age exactly, but she is at least ninety,
possibly ninety-one years of age. She was born New York City, and came to
this city via Pittsburg and the Ohio River when she was six years old with
her parents. At that time there were but three log cabins within a radius of
twenty miles and but four white people. One of these was situated on this
hill above Crooked Creek in which the white
people at one time took refuge.
Her maiden name was Bigler,
and she was married in 1826 to Jacob Harbaugh, and ten children were born to
them. They all married and raised families of their own, but she has lived
to bury all of them and has but four grandchildren. All these children, save
one are buried in a lot just beyond the entrance to Springdale Cemetery, and
beside them the remains of their aged mother will be laid away.
Mrs.
Harbaugh, who was perhaps the oldest resident of Madison as well as the
oldest settler, will be buried tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. She was a
member of the Universalist church and Dr. Barnard officiated at the funeral.
Enlisted March 13, 1813
Discharged March 1, 1814
From Indiana Territorial
Pioneer Records 1801-1820 Vol 2