Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Elizabeth HIGDAY

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> February 2007

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OBITUARY

Mrs. B. A. Higday

Mrs. B. A. Higday, 68, died at 2 a.m. Tuesday at her home on South First
street, after several months' illness from complictions. 

Mrs. Higday, formerly Miss Elizabeth George, was born in the town of
Brooklyn, August 14, 1857, where she lived until 14 years of age, when the
family moved to a farm in Albany Township. On March 5, 1879, she married
Burton Higday and they settled on the Higday farm, four miles southwest of
Evansville, in the town of Union, where they lived for 20 years before
moving to Evansville 26 years ago. Mr. Higday died May 13, 1922. 

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Arhtur Jones; nine grandchildren; one
great-grandchild; three sister, Mrs. William Price and Mrs. Orrin Parker,
Ansley, Neb., and Mrs. William Donavan, McCovl, Nebr; two brothers, David
George, Waco, Nebr., and Thomas George, Evansville.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the home, the Rev.
Robert H. Pratt, Baptist church, officiating. Burial was in Maple Hill
cemetery.

Altho' not a member she formerly attended the Baptist church and led a
Christian life. Thro' all the months of patient suffering she kept a
cheerful spirit, meeting everyone with a smile and as one of her nearest
neighbors has said "The world has lot a good woman."

July 8, 1926, Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin