James HIGGINS
NewFamilySearch.org, February 2011
1810 Census, Bath County, Virginia
1820 Census, Bath County, Virginia
1840 Census, Hampshire County, Virginia, Age 60-70
DEATH: Will Date: 18 Sep 1843, filed in Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia; Will Probate: 19 Oct 1843; NOTES: 1. Moved to Union County, Kentucky in 1820 from Bath County, Virginia where his wife died in 1826. 2. Soon after her death he moved back to Hampshire County, Virginia until 1842. 3. Died from TB exactly one month after his daughter, Elizabeth. RESEARCH NOTE: Elizabeth is James' second marriage. No info on first except tht she died in 1826 in Kentucky. No evidence that this statement is true.
BIRTH: Birthdate also listed as 8 Aug 1780.
NOTE: Sarah and her husband settled in Lewis and Clark County, Montana.
OCCUPATION: Doctor NOTE: Living with his brother, Joseph, in 1850.
OCCUPATION: Doctor
NAME: Elizabeth Adalade or Adaline HIGGINS DEATH: Elizabeth died from TB as did her father. She died one month before him, 27y, 11m, 24d.
OCCUPATION: Owner of Pleasant Grove Stock & Mule Farm, Houstonia, Missouri. NOTES: 1. President of the Sedalia-Lexington Railroad. 2. Owned abut 3,000 acres in Missouri
He married Elizabeth Adelade Copsey Abt 1800 at Hampshire, Virginia . Elizabeth Adelade Copsey was born at Hampshire, Virginia 8 Aug 1783 daughter of John Copsey and Sarah Dodd .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Sarah Yates Higgins
born 6 Mar 1801.
John M. Higgins
born 10 Sep 1803.
James Manly Higgins
born 28 Dec 1807.
Martha B. Higgins
born 4 Apr 1810.
Bushrod Washington Higgins
born 14 Feb 1812.
Elizabeth Adalade Higgins
born 2 Aug 1815.
Montgomery Pike Higgins
born 27 May 1817.
Joseph Copsey Higgins
born 27 Feb 1819.
James Higgins died 21 Sep 1843 at Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri .
Elizabeth Adelade Copsey died 26 Dec 1826 at Union, Kentucky .