Individual Details
Tirzah Higginbotham
(27 Feb 1783 - 1 Aug 1841)
Tirzah's Bible noted that her father John "came to America from Ireland when he was 9 years old, with his father, mother, and several other children". This suggests an arrival in Virginia of about 1735 or so. This is in direct opposition to the supposed connection to a John Higginbotham in Barbados. Why more attention has not been paid is a mystery.
Batch #: F610230, Sheet #: 02, Source Call #: 1621425
From: William Morris Higginbotham
To:
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Poplar Grove, Amherst Co., VA (1814)
Posted on: Higginbotham Deeds > Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/HigginbothamDeed?re ad=8
Surname: Higginbotham, Harrison
Poplar Grove, Amherst Co., VA (1814)
Amherst Co., VA Deed Book M, page 625
Transcribed by William Morris Higginbotham
Misterhigg@@aol.com
Charleston, WV
(This deed is for half the property conveyed to John Higginbotham by Moses Higginbotham on May 11, 1751. This original whole property contains the residence known as Poplar Grove, built by John Higginbotham in 1773, as well as the London Cemetery and Thomas Higginbotham Cemetery. This property was sold upon John's death, half to Richard Harrison, who immediately sold it to Thomas Higginbotham, and half to John London, husband of Tirzah Higginbotham.)
This indenture made and executed the sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fourteen between John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham acting as Executors of the last will and testament of John Higginbotham the elder late of Amherst County deceased, the former residing in Nelson County, the latter in Campbell County of the one part and Richard Harrison of the County of Amherst of the second. Witnesseth that whereas the said John Higginbotham the elder by his Last Will and Testament bearing date on the 22nd day of June in the year of our Lord 1813 and now of record in the County Court of Amherst and to which and to which for greater certainty reference is here had, did among other things devise and appoint that the lands of which he died seized and possessed should be sold by his Executors and the money arising therefrom distributed by them to the several persons named in h is said Will; and by same Will did constitute and appoint the aforesaid John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham Executors thereof, who have heretofore duly qualified in the aforesaid County Court and whereas the aforesaid John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham in pursuance of the trust reposed in them by their said Testator, having duly advertised the time and place of sale for one month in the Sentinel and Press two public newspapers edited in the Town of Lynchburg, did on the twenty ninth day of November now last past expose to public sale the following tract and parcel of land lying on the branches of Rutledges Creek and hereafter more particularly described, at which sale the aforesaid Richard Harrison being the highest bidder became the purchaser of the said tract and parcel of land for the sum of four thousand and sixty one dollars by the said Richard Harrison to us in hand paid before the unsealing and delivery of this indenture, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, we the aforesaid John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham as aforesaid, have granted, bargained and sold and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell to the aforesaid Richard Harrison the following tract and parcel of land lying on the branches of Rutledges Creek in the said County of Amherst and bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at pointers on William Morrison's corner; thence N. 6° W. 400 po. To poplar pointers and stone, N. 85° E. 85 pos. to four red oak pointers 56° E. 394 po. To pointers of red oaks and 385° W.E. ____ W 85 poles to the first station, being one of the several tracts and parcels of land of which the said John Higginbotham died seized and possessed, to have and to hold the said tract and parcel of land containing by estimation the quantity of two hundred acres of land be the same however more or less to him the said Richard Harrison and to his heirs in fee, and the said John Higginbotham and Thomas Higginbotham acting Executors as aforesaid do for themselves and all persons claiming under or thru them or either of them warrant and defend to the said Richard Harrison his heirs forever all such rights and title in and to said described tract or parcel of land as the said John Higginbotham the elder possessed and was seized of on the day of his death, and all such rights and title in the same as is vested in them as Executors by the aforesaid will of their Testator. In Testimony whereof we have this day and year aforesaid, as Executors as aforesaid hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals in the presence of witnesses.
John Higginbotham (Seal)
Thomas Higginbotham (Seal)
At a Court held for Amherst County the 20th of March, 1815. This deed was acknowledged in open Court and ordered to be recorded.
Recorded in Deed Book M. Page 625 Amherst County Clerk's Office Amherst County, Virginia
The Lynchburg Virginian, Thursday 08/26/1841
Tirzah Higginbotham London (1783-1841)
Died, at poplar Grove, her residence, in the county of Amherst, on Sunday, the lst inst., about 3 o'clock, P. M., after a painful illness of sixteen days, which she bore with the greatest fortitude, Mrs. TIRZAH LONDON, widow and relict of John J. London, deceased, in the 60th year of her age. Mrs. London seemed conscious, when first taken sick, that she should never recover, and it was some time after her attack, before she would consent tht a Physician might be called in--saying "they can do me no good." Notwithstanding this seeming knowledge that she must die soon, she was perfectly calm and resigned, and spoke to her children frequently with the most perfect compusure, of her approaching end. She had been for many years a professor of Religion, but had never attached herself to any particular Church. In the death of this truly amiable and Christian lady, society has lost one of its brightest ornaments -- her children, a mother who was kind and affectionate, almost to a fault--and her servants, a mistress whose place can never be filled. Her sorrowing friends should mourn not as those who have no hope, for in her death she gave the strongest proof that "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." To her bereaved children we would say, follow her bright example, practice the virtues taught by her, and prepare to meet her in Heaven, where "parting shall be no more."
Events
| Birth | 27 Feb 1783 | Amherst County, Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 31 Dec 1809 | John London | | ||
| Death | 1 Aug 1841 | |
Families
| Spouse | John London ( - ) |
| Father | Capt. John Higginbotham (1726 - 1814) |
| Mother | Rachel Banks ( - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Higginbotham (1769 - 1835) |
| Sibling | James Higginbotham (1770 - 1834) |
| Sibling | John Higginbotham (1772 - 1822) |
| Sibling | Ann Staunton Higginbotham (1773 - 1810) |
| Sibling | David Higginbotham (1775 - 1853) |
| Sibling | Mary Higginbotham (1777 - 1834) |
| Sibling | Jessie Higginbotham (1779 - 1836) |
| Sibling | Daniel Higginbotham (1781 - 1845) |
| Sibling | Frances Higginbotham (1785 - ) |
| Sibling | Eugene Higginbotham (1787 - 1856) |
| Sibling | Reuben Higginbotham (1789 - 1834) |
Endnotes
1. Earl & Nena Higginbotham, Higginbotham Descendants of Moses and Frances Kyle Higginbotham (LDS Microfilm #1697905), p.27.
2. William Montgomery Sweeney, William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Series of Articles on the Higginbotham Family of Virginia; Jan 1918, Apr 1918, July 1918, Oct 1918, Apr 1919, Article on Colonel James Higginbotham, Surveyor of Amherst Co VA, Jan 1931, by Mrs. Sweeney., Vol 27, Issue 2; Oct 1918 pp.123-129.
3. Earl & Nena Higginbotham, Higginbotham Descendants of Moses and Frances Kyle Higginbotham (LDS Microfilm #1697905), p.27.
4. Earl & Nena Higginbotham, Higginbotham Descendants of Moses and Frances Kyle Higginbotham (LDS Microfilm #1697905), p.27.