Born: 1804  NY (on Water Street)
Married: 18/April/1825 Madison, Jefferson Co., IN	Copy of Marriage Record on page with Jacob Harbaugh
Died: 08/Feb/1893 Madison, Jefferson Co., IN		From the Madison Courier, Feb. 9, 1893 The Oldest Inhabitant Dead "Eleanor Bigler Harbaugh died on First street, east of Mulberry, at four o'clock yesterday afternoon.  The deceased was born nearly 100 years ago on what used to be Water street in New York city, where her parents kept a hotel.  At the age of six years, she came with her parents to Madison, at which time, we are told, there were only three houses on the site of our present city of 10,000 inhabitants.  Two of her uncles were the first settlers of the present site of the great city of St. Louis. On reaching womanhood Miss Bigler was married to the late Jacob Harbaugh, a pioneer citizen of Madison, who died several years ago, having raised quite a large family, all of whom are now dead except four grand-children, one of whom is Mrs. J. Frank Wells of West Main Street. "

FATHER

David Bigler  b. PA

MOTHER

Unknown  b. Scotland

HUSBAND

Jacob Harbaugh

Born: Abt 1794 PA

Died: 1860 IN

CHILDREN

1. David Harbaugh b. 1826

2. James Harbaugh b. 1829

3. Thomas Harbaugh b. 1831

4. Joseph Harbaugh b. 1833

5. Josiah Harbaugh b. 1833

6. John B. Harbaugh  b. 1835

7. Martha Harbaugh b. 1837

8.  Ellen Harbaugh b. 1840

9.  Mary Harbaugh b. 1843

10. Rosanna P. Harbaugh b. 1852

Eleanor Harbaugh outlived all of her children.  In 1850 they had been a family of nine children, with Rosanna yet to be born.  Jacob was a carpenter with a net worth of $1,300.  Their son John died in 1858; Ellen and James in 1859;  her husband Jacob died in 1860;  Josiah died in 1862; Mary died in 1863; a "Miss Harbaugh"  died Feb. 24, 1860.  This may have been  Martha.  David died in 1867. A Joseph Harbaugh and an Ida Harbaugh died in 1864 but they may have been a grandchildren. Her son Joseph died in 1872.  There was a Thomas Harbaugh who died in the Civil War in 1865.  This may have been their son, Thomas.  By 1880, only Rosanna is still alive and she died in 1882.  Eleanor is living with her daughter, Rosanna, in the 1870 and 1880 censuses and does not list any personal wealth.

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