This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Higgins, Powers Beard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2YB.2ACI/1048.1660 Message Board Post: David my great grandmother was a daughter of James Higgins and Elizabeth Mary Powers, Her name was Mary Emily who first married William Powers. Her daughter Harriet married my grandfather George Washington Higgins. Mary Emily then married James Beard. I have as James 8 children William, George, Jacob, Lewis H, Mary Emily, Helen, Harriet and Caroline. By the way are you the son of Kenneth & Audrea Higgins. I graduated with Kenneth from Villisca High School. Ardith (Beavers) Earl, Mojave, California.