[Unk] Bigham and Isabella Potter

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Husband [Unk] Bigham

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Wife Isabella Potter ¹

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Children

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1 F Jane "Jennie" Bigham ²

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           Born: Abt 1801
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           Died: 24 Jan 1874 3
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         Spouse: James Walker (Abt 1804-1880) 2

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General Notes: Wife - Isabella Potter

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She was captured by the Indians when ten years old. The women were visiting together at a neighbor's while the men were out working in the field. The Indians, coming upon them suddenly, killed three or four of the children at play. Little Isabella ran and hid in the brush. Entering the house, the Indians captured her mother and another woman. The latter begged them not to kill her infant, and the party started for the Indian camp. Isabella, seeing her mother leaving, came out of hiding and was taken along. The infant set up a-crying which its mother was unable to stop, and the Indians, taking it from her, dashed it against a tree and carelessly threw the body across a branch, where it was found later. The captives were exchanged after a lapse of eighteen months, during which they led a life of drudgery among the Indians.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 413.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 413, 670, 699, 876.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 670.