Jeremiah Gomer HIGHFILL

Birth:
26 Jan 1849
Hardeman, Tennessee
Death:
2 Dec 1916
Union, Woodward, Oklahoma
Marriage:
28 Mar 1867
Polk, Missouri
Notes:
                   SOURCES:
    1. 1997 Ordinance Index
    2. 1998 Ancestral File (nil)
    3. Main Archive Record (nil)
    4. 1850 Census Hardeman County,Tennessee (FHL#977.3991 V2l)

NAME:
    Jeremiah aka Jerry
Margaret Elizabeth CASE
Birth:
8 Dec 1844
McNairy, Tennessee
Death:
12 May 1928
Oklahoma
Notes:
                       Line 877 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
    BAPL DATE LIVE

    This is the woman Lola E. Rowden remembers so fondly as her
    grandmother.  She
    was petite and "sweet" and was always kind to the grandchildren.
    She played
    with them and fed them first when the common policy was for men to
    eat first,
    then women, then children.
Children
Marriage
1
Frances Caroline Denean HIGHFILL
Birth:
8 Mar 1873
Pleasant Hope, Polk, Missouri
Death:
7 Jul 1954
Hugoton, Stevens, Kansas
Jonathan Albert WILSON 
Marr:
5 Feb 1891
Bolivar, Polk, Missouri 
Notes:
                       Line 683 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
    BAPL DATE LIVE
2
Lila HIGHFILL
Birth:
Abt 1875
of Polk, Missouri
Death:
Sep 1954
 
Marr:
 
3
Bennett Martin HIGHFILL
Birth:
14 Mar 1876
Mooney, Polk, Missouri
Death:
29 Oct 1937
Woodward, Woodward, Oklahoma
Anna Viola PATTON 
Marr:
29 Jul 1908
Woodward, Woodward, Oklahoma 
Notes:
                       These completed records are from Carole L. Highfill, 572 East 900
    North, Ogden
    Utah  782-373l, zip 84404.  While mother had the names, it was
    Carole who made
    them accurate with complete dates and places.  She telephoned once and
    surprised (shocked) me, because I had never thought about anyone
    else in
    mother's family joining the church.  She had been so alone when she
    joined.
    Carole was sure the Highfill was the same.  I sent her what I had,
    but I doubt
    it helped her a bit.  At least the names and places agreed.  It's
    interesting
    to me that mother's favorite grandmother's line is the one who is
    doing this
    work.
4
Barbara Jane HIGHFILL
Birth:
16 Jun 1882
Polk, Missouri
Death:
Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                       This is the aunt I became acquainted with after we moved to
    California.  We
    visited her a few times.  She lived in a small house in Inglewood,
    near the LA
    airport - so near that when the planes flew over to land, we had to
    stop
    talking.  She was very pleasant, looked a little like Gramma Wilson,
    in that
    she was about the same height and build (short and round).  Her hair
    wasn't as
    white.
    She laughed and talked with us.  On one of our visits we found that
    she was
    going to have an operation.  It seems she had some vaginal bleeding.
    We teased
    her about having her second "period."  Of course, it was a serious
    symptom of a
    cancer of some sort that was terminal.  However, as I remember,
    during her
    recovery from the surgery, she fell and broke her leg.  I remember
    feeling very
    badly because they insisted she get up and walk on it, which was
    very painful
    for her, when she was so terminally ill.  I wanted her to be left
    alone.  Who
    knows what was right.  This made me want to sign a paper to not have
    them do
    extraordinary things to keep me alive.  I know she had a hard time
    leaving this
    life.
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Jeremiah Gomer Highfill - Margaret Elizabeth Case

Jeremiah Gomer Highfill was born at Hardeman, Tennessee 26 Jan 1849. His parents were Bennett Highfill and Margaret S. Johnston.

He married Margaret Elizabeth Case 28 Mar 1867 at Polk, Missouri . Margaret Elizabeth Case was born at McNairy, Tennessee 8 Dec 1844 daughter of Martin Case and Barbara Cochran Jackson .

They were the parents of 4 children:
Frances Caroline Denean Highfill born 8 Mar 1873.
Lila Highfill born Abt 1875.
Bennett Martin Highfill born 14 Mar 1876.
Barbara Jane Highfill born 16 Jun 1882.

Jeremiah Gomer Highfill died 2 Dec 1916 at Union, Woodward, Oklahoma .

Margaret Elizabeth Case died 12 May 1928 at Oklahoma .