Brief Life History of Robert S
When Robert S Higgins was born on 30 April 1811, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Higgins Jr., was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Moore, was 21. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Anna Elizabeth O'Neal. He lived in Giles, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died on 6 January 1883, in Falls, Texas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Blue Ridge, Falls, Texas, United States.
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- Robert L Higgins, "United States Census, 1850"
- Robert S Higgins, "Find A Grave Index"
- Robert Higgins in entry for Mary Candar Holloway, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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