Brief Life History of Nelson Daniel
When Nelson Daniel Higgins Sr was born on 9 October 1835, in Florence Township, Huron, Ohio, United States, his father, Nelson Higgins, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Blackman, was 29. He married Sarah Jane Lowry on 18 October 1855, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salem, Utah, Utah, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1850. He died on 22 October 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Nelson Higgins, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah Blackman Higgins, "Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments - Pioneer Overland Travels" (1847)
- Nelson D Higgins, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949" (1890)
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
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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BIOGRAPHY OF NELSON DANIEL HIGGINS
Nelson Daniel Higgins was born 9 October 1835 in Florence, Huron, Ohio to Nelson and Sarah Blackman Higgins. His parents were endowed on 5 January 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. …
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