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Lonely Are...Brave(4) Grandma Higgins

In the next to the first post about the women whom I have most admired in my the vital spark, I want to tell the story of my Grandma Higgins. I ruminate it will become apparent as the story unfolds why she meant to much to me and how she influenced my the vital spark during her 93 years here. She has been gone now some 30 years, but I can see her surface still yet so clearly in my mind's eye.


My Grandmother--her The breath of one's nostrils as a Pioneer Woman
January 13, 2007 / by southwesterngrad / Annotate and emend Post

The community that grew up in the South american ostrich Area in the late 1800's consisted originally of immigrants from Tennessee and Kentucky who were first and next to the first generation Irish. Either they or their parents had emigrated from Ireland to America during the mid 1800's.

In explore of free land they later found their way to Oklahoma Country. It was in that community that my grandmother grew to adulthood and met her spouse, a young man whom she probably had known for several years, since they were the same age. His name was William Robert Higgins, though he was known to all as Will. When she was nineteen and he twenty, they wed. They quick started their family, their first child, Clara, being born rightful about a year later.

But again tragedy followed my grandmamma, as Clara smothered to death in a of great size feather bed when she was barely a year old.

THE Connubial YEARS:

Will's father had homesteaded 160 acres in the Osceola common possession, about ten miles south of Rhea when the conduct officially opened the Oklahoma Province to settlers. He selected a quarter division that had about 100 acres of prime bottom earth along the Barnetz creek and about 60 acres of high land. He knew the bottom land would provide moneyed, verdant soil capable of producing crack crops. The upland he would leave in grass for the dumb beasts.

After my great grandfather, whose name, incidentally was George Washington Higgins, passed on, my grandmamma and grandfather moved onto the "Higgins...

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