18. Isaac M PIDGEON Jr
was born on Sep 2 1836 in Salem Iowa. He died on May 7 1917 in Los Angeles,
CA. He was a Farmer. He was buried in Los Angeles, CA. Salem News 4-18-1912
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Pidgeon and daughters Angie and Carrie departed last week
for Los Angeles California. They having rented their farm to Elbert Brown,
will spend the summer with their children residing in California.
Salem News 5-31-1917
ISAAC M. PIDGEON
Isaac Marion Pidgeon, son of Isaac and Phoebe Kester Pidgeon, was born on the
Pidgeon homestead near Salem ,Iowa, September 2, 1836, and died at his home in
Los Angeles, California, May 7, 1917. He was of Quaker ancestry, tracing his
descent from
Isaac Pidgeon, who was a settler of North Carolina before the Revolutionary war.
The deceased was the ninth of eleven children, and he was the first white child
born in Salem township. His father having been the first Quaker to settle in
Iowa.
making his home on what is still known as the Pidgeon homestead, and which remained
in the possession of the deceased at the time of his demise. Here he lived
continuously until 1912 when he came to California. He was married in 1867
to Mary E. Ables. To this union four children were born- Walter G., Harry C.,
Hermeo, and Mary. after her death he married Alazannah Alexander, who later
died leaving o
daughter, Alazannah. In 1875 he
was united in marriage with Nancy Montgomery, who became the mother of five daughters,
Angie, Julia, Evalyn, Myrtle, and Caroline. All the children survive him except
Mary, who died in infancy, and Hermeo, whose death occurred in 1913 in Californ
He possessed a personality industrious, intelligent, sturdy, and honest, and
he was successful and prosperous. He held a birthright membership in the Friends
church, and he was noted for his integrity and his desire to see justice for
all. He
interested in all reforms, had been a staunch Abolitionist, and was a strong
Prohibitionist. Although he was of late afflicted and infirm physically, yet
he went to the polls last fall and voted for California dry.
He came to California five years ago so that he might be with his children,
and also because of the mild climate. He always seemed well satisfied and often
remarked that he knew he could not have survived another winter in Iowa. So
that his lo
ones feel that his life was prolonged by
his removal to this state. At his bedside when he passed away were his wife,
one son and two daughters. But all the members of the family who survive him
were able to attend the funeral. They were besides the
widow, Walter G., Harry, Angie, and Julia Pidgeon, Miss Birdie Smith of Burbank,
Calif.; Mrs. Evalyn Howard of Oakland ,Calif.; Mrs. Myrtle Jenkins and Mrs. Caroline
Bailey both of Los Angeles.
The pall bearers were all men who knew him in his old home in Iowa. They
were the Messrs Theo. Hockett, Samuel Cook, Charles Siveter and Chase Ayers.
He was laid away in beautiful Forest Lawn cemetery.
The memory of the just is blessed. He was married to Nancy M MONTGOMERY.
19. Nancy M MONTGOMERY was
born on Mar 22 1845. She died on Jan 6 1928 in Los Angeles, CA. She was buried
in Los Angeles, CA. Children were:
i. Angline
PIDGEON was born in 1876 in Salem, Iowa. She died in 1958 in Los Angeles,
CA. She was buried in Los Angeles, CA.
ii. Julia
PIDGEON was born in 1877.
iii.
Evelin PIDGEON was born in 1879 in Salem, Iowa. She died in 1962 in Los
Angeles, CA. She was buried in Los Angeles, CA.
9 iv.
Leana Caroline PIDGEON.
v. Annie
Myrtel PIDGEON.
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