When Joseph C Higginbotham was born about 1803, in Georgia, United States, his father, Oliver C Higginbotham, was 38 and his mother, Nancy Doggett, was 30. He married Elizabeth Broach on 20 December 1829, in Walton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Jackson, Dallas, Arkansas, United States in 1850 and Nacogdoches, Texas, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1812. He died after 1859, in Texas, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
English (Cheshire): habitational name from Oakenbottom in Bolton le Moors (Lancashire), probably originally called ǣcen-botme ‘oaken valley’. During the Middle Ages this name became successively Eakenbottom and Ickenbottom, with the first element becoming associated with the Lancashire and Cheshire dialect word hicken or higgen ‘mountain ash’ or the personal name Higgin.
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