Muscogee-Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Higgins, James Pearce May 2, 1928
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"The Roanoke Leader"
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, May 9, 1928

DEATH OF MR. J.P. HIGGINS

Mr. James Pearce Higgins, son of the late J.T. Higgins, was born September 27, 
1878 and was reared in Chambers county, Alabama where he spent his entire 
life.  He was married to Miss Odessa Prather, daughter of the late and 
lamented T.J. Prather, also of Chambers county, on December 27, 1903. He was a 
loving and devoted husband and a loving father. 

Early in life Mr. Higgins united with the Primitive Baptist church and lived a 
christian life. We feel that he has departed from his loved ones to join our 
blessed Savior above.

During the year 1927 he, together with his family, moved to LaGrange, Georgia 
where they became endeared to many friends. Mr. Higgins was widely known and 
highly respected by all of his acquaintances. His death occurred May 2, 1928 
following an illness of three weeks.

The funeral services were conducted Thursday at the Baptist church at Five 
Points, Alabama by Rev. Walter P. Binns, pastor of the First Baptist church of 
LaGrange, and music was furnished by the choir from LaGrange. The house was 
filled to overflowing and this, together with the many beautiful floral 
offerings, proves the high esteem in which he was held by those who knew him.

Interment was in the Five Points cemetery with the six brothers-in-law serving 
as pall bearers;  Horace Collier, Gid Wheeler, Richard Embrey, Dock,  Henry 
and King Prather.

Surving are his wife and seven children; Lorena, James, Nellie, Vernon, 
Herman, Julia and Fred, all of LaGrange, also his stepmother Mrs. Fannie L. 
Higgins and the following brothers and sisters:  

Mrs. Lola Britton of Loraine, Texas
Mrs. Rena Wheeler of Roanoke, Ala.
N.B. Higgins of Five Points, Ala.
Cohen Higgins of Columbus, Ga.
Hiram Higgins of Columbus, Ga.
Mrs. Sarah Bradshaw of Haleyville, Ala.
Mrs. Laura Dunn of Birmingham, Ala.
Harold Higgins of Birmingham, Ala.
Roy Higgins of Birmingham, Ala.
Guy Higgins of Birmingham, Ala.
John T. Higgins of Birmingham, Ala.

Hunter & Owens of LaGrange were the undertakers in charge. May God in his 
mercy richly bless those left to mourn his departure especially his dear wife 
and children.

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