Absalom Higginbotham (1781 - 1866)
Family Bible Records
Higginbotham Family Bible Information
Compiled by Beverly Morris Higginbotham (1886-1968)
Transcribed by William Morris Higginbotham
Misterhigg@aol.com
Charleston, WV 1999
Absalom Higginbotham (1781-1866) Family Bible
Amherst County, Virginia
In the possession of Beverly Morris Higginbotham until 1968.
Current location unknown
Births:
Absalom Higginbotham 05/02/1781
Absalom’s wife
Mary C. Sandidge 08/26/1789
Absalom’s children
Betty Ann Higginbotham 10/05/1807
Nancy Croxton Higginbotham 12/04/1809
James Higginbotham 02/05/1812
Rufus Anderson Higginbotham 03/05/1814
Benjamin Sandidge Higginbotham 08/21/1818
Absalom Higginbotham Jr. 07/03/1821
Thomas Higginbotham 03/01/1824
Aaron Lewis Higginbotham 12/31/1826
Paul Higginbotham 11/01/1831
Absalom’s sisters:
Elizabeth Higginbotham 07/11/1778
Sallie Higginbotham 09/25/1783
Nancy Higginbotham 06/13/1786
Clara Graves Higginbotham 12/01/1791
Johannah Croxton Higginbotham 06/26/1784
Absalom’s brother
Aaron Higginbotham 02/23/1789
Aaron’s children
Alexander Brown Higginbotham 06/23/1818
John James Higginbotham 01/16/1820
Nancy Croxton Higginbotham 10/07/1821
*Anderson Sandidge 08/09/1793
(He was the brother of Mary C. Sandidge Higginbotham)
Deaths
*Absalom Higginbotham 07/07/1866
Absalom’s wife
*Mary C. Sandidge Higginbotham 05/28/1871
Absalom’s children
Bettie Ann Higginbotham Hill 05/26/1831
Thomas Higginbotham 11/01/1841
*Paul Higginbotham 08/26/1864
*Nancy Croxton Higginbotham Royster 10/05/1865
*James Higginbotham 09/11/1874
*Rufus Anderson Higginbotham 12/28/1878
Wife of Absalom Higginbotham Jr.
*Elizabeth Tucker Higginbotham 09/25/1884
*William Tucker 08/23/1884
(He was the father of Elizabeth Tucker)
Wife of Aaron Lewis Higginbotham
*Sarah Ann Sandidge Higginbotham 06/05/1860
*John Wilson Myers 09/23/1869
(He was the husband of Mary Lucinda Higginbotham, daughter of Rufus Anderson Higginbotham)
*Anderson Sandidge 05/12/1859
(He was the brother of Mary C. Sandidge Higginbotham)
Marriages
Absalom Higginbotham to Mary C. Sandidge 11/06/1806
Absalom Higginbotham Jr. to Elizabeth Tucker 12/14/1843
James Higginbotham to Ann Eliza London 12/17/1835
Aaron Higginbotham to Elizabeth Sandidge 05/22/1817
*These entries are of different handwriting than the rest