Individual Details

On the 1836 Kemper Co MS Tax Rolls next to William Higginbotham. Copy sent from Kemper Co Library.
Land Patent (BLM) signature date 2/27/1841; Certif #28344 in Kemper Co MS for 118.96 acres: W 1/2 NE 1/4 S18, T10N, R16E and NE 1/4 of NE 1/4 of S18, T10, R16. Possibly secured patent in order to sell and go to Texas?
Lived in Anderson Co TX. c 1841.

Probably found on 1846 Tax List in Anderson Co as L. Higginbotham.

1850 Anderson Co TX Census (Online) Household #213. Linsey Higginbotham, age 38, farmer, born in GA; Mary age 31 b. AL; John C. age 11 b. MS; Sarah M. age 9 b. Houston Co; Isabel H. age 6 b. Houston Co; William H. age 4 b. Anderson Co; Elizabeth A. age 2 b. Anderson Co. and Robert Woods age 20 b. Alabama. [Could Woods be a younger brother of the wife?]

1855 Taxpayers, Anderson County, Texas
Higginbotham, Linsey

1860 Census. Anderson Co TX, Beat 5. Hh 859
Linsey Higginbotham, age 48, b. Louisiana. M. A., female, age 42, b. Miss.
Children all born in TX: Sarah 19, Isabella 16, Wm 14, Elisabeth 11, M. J., female, age 7, Miranda, age 4.

Texas Tax Assessment Rolls
1863, 1864, 1868, 1871-2 - Lindsey Higginbotham, Anderson Co.

I did not find the family in the 1870 census.

VOTERS OF ANDERSON COUNTY, 1871
Lindsey Higginbotham

PROBATE INDEX 1846 - 1879 ANDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS
Higginbotham, Lindsey Deceased File 353, p. 306

ANDERSON COUNTY 1876 TAX ROLL
Name of Taxpayer & Acres
Higginbotham, Mrs. M. 19

Birth	Abt 1812	Georgia
Death	1873	Texas

Father	WILLIAM HIGGINBOTHAM (1788 - 1852)
Mother	MARY DAVIS ( - 1827)
Sibling	[Son] Higginbotham ( - )
Sibling	Moses Higginbotham (1811 - 1849)
Sibling	Jackson Higginbotham (1816 - )
Sibling	THOMAS HIGGINBOTHAM (1820 - 1880)
Sibling	Melvina Higginbotham (1822 - 1906)
Sibling	William Higginbotham Jr. (1824 - 1906)