When James Marion Higginbotham Jr. was born on 31 March 1910, in West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States, his father, James Marion Higginbotham, was 20 and his mother, Georgia Anna Daves, was 21. He lived in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 15 March 2001, in California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
The Mississippi State Sanatorium is a hospital used for tuberculosis patients. This lasted from 1918 to the 1950s. The Sanatorium has now been turned into a museum.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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