Calhoun-Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....Higgins, William F. 1838 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM F. HIGGINS, is a native of Butts County, Ga., a son of Joseph and
Judith W. (Key) Higgins, and was born June 11, 1838. The senior Mr. Higgins came
from Edgefield District, S. C., into Georgia, when a boy, there married, and in
1844 settled in Chambers County, Ala. He located at Oxford in 1875, and died in
1880, at the age of sixty-six years. He was a jeweler by trade, but the latter
part of his life was devoted to farming. His father, William Higgins was a
native of South Carolina, there married a Miss Ashley, and subsequently became
one of the early settlers of Georgia.

    William F. Higgins was reared and educated at Lafayette, in Chambers County,
and while a young man learned the jeweler's trade. He entered the army in 1863,
and remained until the close of the war. After the war he resumed the jewelry
business; moved into Oxford in 1868, and in 1874, turned his attention entirely
to farming. He began life at the close of the war without money, but has
succeeded in accumulating a handsome competency. He was married May 29, 1869, to
Miss Virginia Dennis, daughter of Snmeral and Mary (Hanchett) Dennis, natives of
South Carolina.

    Mr. Dennis came into Alabama in 1832; removed thence to Tallapoosa County,
and died at Dadeville. He was a captain in the Mexican War, and also in the late
Confederate Army.

    Mr. Higgins and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
and Mr. H. is of the Masonic fraternity.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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