BIO: Anna BIGELOW, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 29. __________________________________________________________ ANNA BIGELOW McAlevy's Fort, Huntingdon County, Pa. Postmistress: Born at Greenwood Furnace, a daughter of Lewis A. Bigelow, formerly a postmaster at McAlevy's Fort, who died in 1909. He married Mary C. Hoover. Her husband was a blacksmith; she died in 1922. Joseph Hoover, the father of Mary C. Hoover, was a Civil War veteran. He was killed in the Battle of Antietam. Anna Bigelow began her schooling at what was known as the Little Furnace School near McAlevy's Fort. She was an assistant postmaster for two years. On May 25, 1920, she received the appointment as postmaster. She belongs to the Methodist Church at Ennisville, Huntingdon Co., Pa.; also attends Sunday School. She has five brothers: Joseph H., married to Blanche McCall; Emmett E., married to Julia McMullin; William, married to Clara Strong; James T., married to Amanda Allison, Altoona, Pa.; Frank M., married to Bessie Randolph, Clay A., is deceased, having died at the age of thirty-eight years. Her sisters are Libbie Harper, McAlevy's Fort, Pa.; Mary B. Rhivers, Harrisburg, Pa.; Edna B., McAlevy's Fort; Katharine, McAlevy's Fort; Lorena, married to Dr. H.E. Miller, Belleville, Mifflin County, Pa. Miss Bigelow is a careful official, obliging, and has the respect of one and all.