When Statira Matilda Higbee was born on 10 November 1842, in Michigan City, Michigan Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, her father, Obadiah Higbee, was 32 and her mother, Julia Ann Perry, was 28. She married Sidney Viers on 11 September 1858, in Hartford, Warren, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Peterson Township, Clay, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Andover, Day, South Dakota, United States in 1910. She died on 12 May 1920, in Peterson, Clay, Iowa, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Waterman Township, O'Brien, Iowa, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Polk, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Polk, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (London): perhaps a habitational name, but no place of this name is known in Britain. The proposed etymology from an Old English personal name, Higbert, is equally doubtful.
History: The name was brought to North America in the 1640s from Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire, England.
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