This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Higgs, Payne, Seaman, Wilkins Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1778 Message Board Post: Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pg. 604 Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888 WILLIAM H. HIGGS, one of the successful farmers of Wabash Township, residing on section 16, was born in Allen County, Ohio, April 10, 1828, a son of JAMES and CYNTHIA (SEAMAN) HIGGS. They were natives of Maryland and Virginia, respectively, and both were reared on the banks of the Potomac River. They were married in Maryland, and soon after immigrated to Allen County, Ohio, locating there when the Indians were more numerous than the white settlers. The father entered land in Allen County, where he resided until 1839, and in the fall of that year he came to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, making the journey by wagon, over almost impassable roads. On this journey they were a whole day in going a distance of four miles on account of the condition of the roads. The father made a settlement in Wea Township, where he continued to reside until his death in 1844, his widow surviving him until 1847. They were the parents of four children of whom WILLIAM H., the subject of this sket! ch, is the only one living. He was a lad of eleven years when brought by his parents to this county, and here he was reared amid the scenes and incidents of pioneer life. After the death of his parents he was left among strangers, and was knocked around from place to place until his marriage, which occurred in 1858, to MISS MARIA PAYNE. Her parents, PHILIP and HESTER (WILKINS) PAYNE, were both natives of Ohio, and were among the early settlers of this county, coming here about the year 1829. Two of the three children born to MR. and MRS. HIGGS are living, their names being EVERETT and LAURA J. A daughter, named MARIA, is deceased. MR. HIGGS spent two years in Wea Township after his marriage, and in the fall of 1861, he removed to Wabash Township, and purchased 126 acres of land where he has since made his home. He has made many improvements on his land which is now very productive and under good cultivation, and his residence and farm buildings are built in the modern! style. In politics MR. HIGGS is a Republican, having affiliated with that political party since its organization.