Individual Details

I believe there is no hard and fast proof that Maryann Cash was the wife of Caleb Higginbotham. However, the following circumstances substantiate that she was probably the same.

In the will of Howard Cash he did name a daughter Mary Lively as well as an apparently unmarried daughter Maryann. The will is dated 1772. Mary Ann received a slave boy Ralph, bed & furniture, cow & calf - the typical gifts to a daughter at the time of her marriage, so he was providing for that event which had not yet happened. One of the bequests of the will, to his son Benjamin, makes clear that Aaron Higginbotham and Howard Cash lived on adjoining properties. One of Aaron's daughters, Tamasin Higginbotham, married Robert Cash, a son of Howard's. Caleb Higginbotham was a nephew of Aaron - Aaron and all of his brothers lived on the divided property of their father so certainly Caleb was "in the neighborhood" as well. Caleb Higginbotham and Maryann Cash probably married about 1775. When Ruth, wife of Howard Cash, died in 1784, Caleb Higginbotham was security for Hendrick Arnold who was by then married to Ruth, daughter of Howard Cash - this would be a common task for a brother-in-law.

Birth	Abt 1755
Marriage	Abt 1775	Amherst County, Virginia - CALEB Higginbotham
Death	Aft 1794	Elbert County, Georgia

Spouse	CALEB Higginbotham (1752 - 1823)
Child	Robert H. Higginbotham (1777 - 1831)
Child	Nelson Higginbotham (1780 - 1860)
Child	Nellie Higginbotham ( - )
Child	WILLIAM HIGGINBOTHAM (1788 - 1852)
Child	Samuel Higginbotham ( - 1829)
Child	Mary Higginbotham (1793 - )
Child	Betsey Higginbotham ( - )

Father	Robert Howard Cash (1687 - 1772)
Mother	Ruth [Cash] ( - 1784)
Sibling	Stephen Cash ( - 1799)
Sibling	Sarah Cash ( - )
Sibling	Joel Cash ( - 1773)
Sibling	Mary Cash ( - )
Sibling	Benjamin Cash ( - 1777)
Sibling	Rosanna Cash ( - )
Sibling	Ann Cash ( - )
Sibling	Robert Howard Cash ( - 1782)
Sibling	Elizabeth Cash ( - )
Sibling	Ruth Cash ( - )