Morgan County GaArchives Obituaries.....Higginbotham, John William December 22, 1941
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The Madisonian, 2 Jan. 1942
Former Citizen Passes In Miami
  On Monday of last week at his home in Miami occurred the death of Mr. J. W. 
Higginbotham.  He had been in failing health for a long while.
  The remains with members of the family reached Madison Wednesday morning, and 
the body was placed in state at the Hempeley funeral home until afternoon, when 
it was taken to Centennial church, where Rev. W. T. Booth conducted a simple 
and appropriate funeral service.
  The church choir sang several favorite hymns and there were many beautiful 
floral offerings.
  Pall bearers were Messrs. Troy and Herman Mitchem, J. C., Millard Hill, 
Raymond and Addison Higginbotham.
  Interment was in the churchyard, W. C. Hemperley undertaker in charge.
  The deceased was the oldest of several sons of the late Rufus and Martha 
Stanton Higginbotham, and was 73 years old.  he was born near Rutledge, in 
Walton county.
  In 1890 he was married to Miss Beatrice Murray, in Morgan county, who 
survives him with three children -- Robert and J. R. Higginbotham and Mrs. 
Ludie Ashurst, all of Miami.  Mr. R. H. Higginbotham, of Madison, is a brother.
  Two children are dead -- a girl in infancy and Stanton at the age of twenty.
  Honorary pall bearers were Messrs. Jac, Jim and Will Jones.
  There are a number of nieces and nephews.
  He was a member of Centennial Baptist church.
  He moved with his family to Miami more than fifteen years ago.
  The Madisonian man mourns the death of Will Higginbotham.  We became friends 
some forty years ago, in his early married life, while he lived at the Morrison 
place.
  We liked him for the sterling qualities of his mind and heart.  He pursued 
the even tenor of his way, and his heart was full of the milk of human 
kindness.  He had a high sense of honor and integrity and had the confidence 
and esteem of all who knew him.
  We knew him well and liked him much, and a feeling of sadness comes over us 
when we realize that he has gone to return no more.

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