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Notice in the "Selma Courier". Unclaimed letter at the PO at Selma on 1 Jan 1828 for Moses Higginbotham.

Old Tuscaloosa Land Office Records & Military Warrants 1821-1855
Marilyn Davis Barfield Easley SC, Southern Historical Press, 1984
p.37 Huntsville Land Office - Register of Receipts 1820 -1841
10/29/1832 Moses Higginbotham, Jackson Co S18 T3 R6E
Moses took out a patent in Jackson Co MS on 5 Jan 1841, for 80 acres
W1/2NW, S9, T4S, R7W

Found on the 1837 MS state Census, living near William Higginbotham and family. Moved to Jackson Co MS.
1840 Jackson Co MS Census: p.274. Moses Higginbotham: 1m under 5; 1m 20-30 [Moses]; 2f 5-10, 1f 20-30.
Found on GenForum: Moses died bef 1850, Mississippi. The small boy was George Washington Higginbotham who married Hannah Eliza Barrow and died after 1890 in Beauregard Parish LA.

A FamilySearch family tree suggests Moses' wife was Martha Whittington. I did find a Martha "Hugginbottom" living in Harrison Co, MS in 1850:
Martha, 35, b. Georgia (which agrees with her data on FamilySearch, as do the children)
Martha, 15. William, 14. Both born in MS
George, 9. John, 7. Both born in AL
Ramsey, age 1, b. MS

1860 Census. Marion Co, MS, P.O. Columbia, Hh 421
Martha Hickambottom, 45, b. MS as was the whole family dittoed.
George, 19, mail man
John 17, mail man
Ramsey, 12
Marendah, age 10 (Martha must have been pregnant when Moses died)

I suspect Martha died prior to 1870.
In 1870, I found George & Ramsey back in Jackson Co, MS, Vancleave, Hh 434
Family 473: Geo. Higginbotham, 27, B. AL. Hannah, 22, Jane, 2
Family 474: Harriet Smallwood, 55. with George 12 and Joseph 14, apparently her sons, and Ramsey Higginbotham, age 20 (also marked as b. AL)

Birth	Abt 1811
Death	Abt 1849

Father	WILLIAM HIGGINBOTHAM (1788 - 1852)
Mother	MARY DAVIS ( - 1827)
Sibling	[Son] Higginbotham ( - )
Sibling	Lindsey Higginbotham (1812 - 1873)
Sibling	Jackson Higginbotham (1816 - )
Sibling	THOMAS HIGGINBOTHAM (1820 - 1880)
Sibling	Melvina Higginbotham (1822 - 1906)
Sibling	William Higginbotham Jr. (1824 - 1906)