BIO: Anna BIGELOW, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 29.
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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.