Individual Details

Jasper was about twelve when the family moved to Rusk Co, TX. He married Temperence Goodwin, 29 Jun 1854. Before 1860 they moved to Hill Co, TX where Temperance died on 7 Apr 1860, leaving Jasper with two young children.

Jasper moved back to Rusk County and joined the 7th Texas Regt, Company I, early in the Civil War. The unit was captured at Ft. Donelson, TN, 16 Feb 1862 and he was sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago. More prisoners died there than in any other Civil War prison, North or South. He died less than a month before his unit was among a prisoner exchange in vicksburg, MS.

Jasper's father Lindsey was appointed guardian of his children Ellen and Hannibal, April 1862, but he died shortly after. The children were raised by their aunt Mary Jane Higginbotham Bennet and her husband.

Birth	9 Jul 1835	Yalobusha County, Mississippi
Death	23 Aug 1862	Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois

Father	Lindsey Higginbotham (1794 - 1865)
Mother	Eleanor Higginbotham (1800 - 1864)
Sibling	Mary Jane Higginbotham (1819 - )
Sibling	Burrus Higginbotham (1820 - 1841)
Sibling	Joseph James Higginbotham (1821 - )
Sibling	Frances Rebecca Ann Higginbotham (1823 - )
Sibling	Absalom Higginbotham (1825 - 1829)
Sibling	Lucinda Higginbotham (1827 - 1828)
Sibling	Seaton Higginbotham (1829 - 1891)
Sibling	William Lindsey Higginbotham (1831 - 1907)
Sibling	John Willis Higginbotham (1834 - 1863)