A Forty-Niner.
The death of Mrs. Virginia Cummings, the only child of the late Governor Bigler, which occurred at Sacramento on the 5th inst. after a brief illness, will be learned with keen regret by very many early Californians who knew her family and herself. Jennie Bigler, as she was familiarly known for many years in this city and Sacramento, came across the continent in an ox-cart, with her father and mother, in 1849. The trip was a very hard one for the family, and was made unusually hard by Jennie breaking a limb on the way. After Bigler was settled in Sacramento and became Governor, holding office for two terms, his house was a social center, and his bright and amiable daughter, young as she was, was a great favorite. She accompanied her father to Chili, when he was United States Minister to that country, and came back as unsophisticated and like-able as ever, making friends wherever she moved. Her sudden death will be felt in a wide circle, and must attract very earnest sympathy to her widowed mother.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
Saturday, February 8, 1873, pg. 3
The death of Mrs. Virginia Cummings, the only child of the late Governor Bigler, which occurred at Sacramento on the 5th inst. after a brief illness, will be learned with keen regret by very many early Californians who knew her family and herself. Jennie Bigler, as she was familiarly known for many years in this city and Sacramento, came across the continent in an ox-cart, with her father and mother, in 1849. The trip was a very hard one for the family, and was made unusually hard by Jennie breaking a limb on the way. After Bigler was settled in Sacramento and became Governor, holding office for two terms, his house was a social center, and his bright and amiable daughter, young as she was, was a great favorite. She accompanied her father to Chili, when he was United States Minister to that country, and came back as unsophisticated and like-able as ever, making friends wherever she moved. Her sudden death will be felt in a wide circle, and must attract very earnest sympathy to her widowed mother.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
Saturday, February 8, 1873, pg. 3
A Forty-Niner.
The death of Mrs. Virginia Cummings, the only child of the late Governor Bigler, which occurred at Sacramento on the 5th inst. after a brief illness, will be learned with keen regret by very many early Californians who knew her family and herself. Jennie Bigler, as she was familiarly known for many years in this city and Sacramento, came across the continent in an ox-cart, with her father and mother, in 1849. The trip was a very hard one for the family, and was made unusually hard by Jennie breaking a limb on the way. After Bigler was settled in Sacramento and became Governor, holding office for two terms, his house was a social center, and his bright and amiable daughter, young as she was, was a great favorite. She accompanied her father to Chili, when he was United States Minister to that country, and came back as unsophisticated and like-able as ever, making friends wherever she moved. Her sudden death will be felt in a wide circle, and must attract very earnest sympathy to her widowed mother.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
Saturday, February 8, 1873, pg. 3
The death of Mrs. Virginia Cummings, the only child of the late Governor Bigler, which occurred at Sacramento on the 5th inst. after a brief illness, will be learned with keen regret by very many early Californians who knew her family and herself. Jennie Bigler, as she was familiarly known for many years in this city and Sacramento, came across the continent in an ox-cart, with her father and mother, in 1849. The trip was a very hard one for the family, and was made unusually hard by Jennie breaking a limb on the way. After Bigler was settled in Sacramento and became Governor, holding office for two terms, his house was a social center, and his bright and amiable daughter, young as she was, was a great favorite. She accompanied her father to Chili, when he was United States Minister to that country, and came back as unsophisticated and like-able as ever, making friends wherever she moved. Her sudden death will be felt in a wide circle, and must attract very earnest sympathy to her widowed mother.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
Saturday, February 8, 1873, pg. 3
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