Brief Life History of Francis David
When Francis David Higginbotham Sr was born on 24 March 1848, in Andrew, Missouri, United States, his father, William Elliott Higginbotham, was 37 and his mother, Louisa Ward, was 40. He married Elizabeth Ann Rawson on 22 August 1868, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Eastern District, Powhatan, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 8 October 1911, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Frank D Higginbotham, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Francis David "Frank" Higginbotham Sr - Individual or family possessions: birth: 24 March 1848; ,Andrew, Missouri, United States
- Frank David Higginbotham, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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