Brief Life History of Simon Shelby
When Simon Shelby Higginbotham was born on 20 June 1839, in Burkes Garden, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, his father, William Elliott Higginbotham, was 28 and his mother, Louisa Ward, was 31. He married Jane Ward about 1864, in Burkes Garden, Tazewell, Virginia, United States. He lived in Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1850. He died on 4 January 1889, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Simon Hickenbottom, "United States Census, 1870"
- !Birth date from Ogden 3rd Ward records.
- Simeon S. Higginbotham, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1841
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Josiah Nelson BIRTH 1841 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA DEATH 1841 (aged less–than 1 year) Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA BURIAL Ogden City Cemetery Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 240526232 · View Source
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Name Meaning
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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