Dear Tamie Harding, Are you aware that there is a Higdon Family Association that meets in various places around the country once a year? I have a very good elderly friend in Copperhill, TN who is in poor health now and can't attend (she will be 94 if she lives until August), whose husband was Walter Q. Higdon of Copperhill, TN. Mr. Walter died in 1963, I believe it was. HIs wife, Rachel McKey Higdon and I used to teach together at West Fannin High School in Blue Ridge. We also worked together in church and community activities. Her husband, Walter Higdon, was one of the first trustees of Truett McConnell College, Cleveland, GA. And Walter's sister, the late Bonnie Higdon Reaves, gave quite a sizeable endowment upon her death to fund college education scholarships at the Bonnie Higdon Reaves Campus of what was Truett McConnell College, Epworth, GA--but unfortunately Truett McConnell pulled out and, fortunately, Toccoa Falls College is now the academic provider of classes on that location at Epworth, GA. That was a long paragraph to introduce you to my friends Rachel McKey Higdon and her late husband, Walter Q. Higdon. He used to own and operate the Ford Motor dealership in Copperhill, TN back in the 40s, 50s, 60s. Walters earliest ancestor to Fannin County Georgia (and Fannin was formed from Union County, GA in 1854) was Leonard Higdon (1828-1918). He was living in the area by at least 1853, moving from Jackson County, NC. That first settler Leonard Higdon had a son, John Spenser Higdon (1865-1890). The Fannin County Leonard Higdon had a brother, Samuel Higdon (b. 1821, death date unknown) who married Mary "Polly" Queen and lived in North Georgia (either in Union or Gilmer, from which Fannin was carved in 1854). In 1866, immediately after the Civil War, Samuel Higdon defeated the legendary Ben Dugger, who had represented the 41st District composed of Fannin, Gilmer and Pickens Counties in North Georgia. To defeat Ben Duggar showed Samuel Higdon's prowess as a politician. Samuel Higdon and his wife Polly had nine children: Tira, Glenn, James Wiley, Samuel, Harriet, Jane, Elzade, Baxter, Polly and Fairbe. Leonard and Samuel Higdon's parents were Leonard and Eve Huffman Higdon. The Leonard who settled in what became known as the Higdon's Store section of Fannin (you guessed it! He started a store there--and a post office named Higdon's Store!) was in the Colwell District of Fannin County, GA married Mary Ann McClure. I didn't know all of this on my own. Several articles about the Higdon Families were written by Rachel Higdon and Bonnie Higdon Reaves for FACETS OF FANNIN: A HISTORY OF FANNIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, VOLUME 1 which I edited. It was published first in 1989 and is now in its 6th printing--a 683-page history of the county and many of its families ($80 + $10 S&H) Although I did not find information about the two you asked about, I have a feeling that they were related to the Fannin County Higdons. You may be able to go online and find out information about the Higdon Family Association. Rachel is too infirm to attend the reunions any more--and she enjoyed them so much as long as she was able to go! Sincerely, Ethelene Dyer Jones edj0513@alltel.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tamie" <hardings@sfcn.org> To: <GAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:35 PM Subject: [GAUNION] John and Adolphus Higdon > Forgive me -- I am a new subscriber. Looking for information on a John Higdon with wife Sarah found on the 1870 and 1880 census for Union Co. Also interested in any information on their son Adolphus or his descendants. > > Thank for any help! > Tamie Harding > > Researching: SIMMONS, HIGDON, JORDAN, CLOUSE, SELBY, STAMPS, KINNARD and many more > > > ==== GAUNION Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political/religious statements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact > WyleneL@aol.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >