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Private in Capt Walter McGinnis' Company, 4th Battalion, Cumberland County PA Militia
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56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
Spouse: Mary Bigger Children: Rebecca; John; Hannah; Sarah; Thomas; James;
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Photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR
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Author: Michael B. Gunn
Born December 30, 1760 in Ireland and a brother to Finley Bigger, Registrar of the U.S. Treasury, John Bigger served as a Private in Capt Walter McVinnis' PA Company 4th Battalion, Cumberland Company. He married Mary Bigger (1763-1841); children: Thomas b. 1792, Sarah, Rebecca, John, William, Joseph, James b. 1805 & Hannah. John and Mary migrated from the Conococheague region to the Maryland-Pennsylvania border to Kentucky in 1788 where their children were born, thence to Ohio after the turn of the century with the church migration 1804. He died at 71 years of age December 30, 1831 and was buried at Pioneer Cemetery, Grave 35, 3851 Upper Bellbrook Road, Bellbrook, OH. Centerville, OH. At his side sleeps his wife Mary, a distant relative of the same family name, (1763-1844). She was born in Maryland and was a sister of Colonel John Bigger, legislator and pioneer of Warren County, Ohio. He has a very worn tombstone, a DAR marker and his name is on an upright stone monument along with eight others placed by DAR. References: 56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC Vol 55, p 407, Natl No D. A. R. Lin.
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