Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....HIGGINBOTHAM, Annie December 1, 1943
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The Brunswick News; Friday 3 December 1943; pg. 8 col. 5

NEGRESS SAID TO BE 126 YEARS OF AGE DIED WEDNESDAY

Glynn county’s oldest resident, Annie Higginbotham, a negress, died Wednesday, 
and on her last birthday she said she was 126 years old, and while the 
definite date of her birth has not been established, further than information 
supplied by the woman, many of Glynn county’s oldest residents declare she is 
well over 100.

According to Emma’s [sic] record, she was born at Fancy Bluff, in this county, 
in 1817, and was a slave of the well known Glynn county Pyles family.

For ten years she had been receiving an old age pension through the local 
welfare office, and those who have conferred with her regarding the pension 
state that when she was first placed on this roll she gave her age at 116.  
Each year since then, she has correctly kept up with her age, therefore 
welfare workers said if she did this all through her life her age as given 
must be correct.  Although she has been feeble for some time, her mind has 
been perfectly clear, and frequently Brunswick people visited her and listened 
to her tell about conditions of the long ago.  She said she remembered 
Brunswick when there was nothing here but a couple of houses, all the 
remainder of the city being a wooded area.  She said she was grown at the time 
Sherman marched through Georgia and headed this way, and with her family went 
temporarily to an adjoining county.  She could give dates of many outstanding 
occurrences in the city and county, and, as stated, while there is no absolute 
way in which the date of her birth can be established, those who know her 
believe she was just about the age she claimed.

Annie died at her home here, 1928 Johnson street, having removed to the city 
some time ago from Fancy Bluff.  Funeral services will be held at the First 
Baptist church, colored, on Amherst street at 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, 
and it will be attended by many of Annie’s white as well as colored friends.


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