Individual Details

World War II Draft Registration - undated
Walter Edwin Higginbotham of Jonesboro, Jackson Parish, LA was age 20, born 10 Oct 1921 in Vernon, Louisiana. Mrs. Peggy Higginbotham would always know his address. His employer was Sou. Adv. Bag & Paper Co, in Hodge, LA
5' 6 1/2", 120 #ls. Blue eyes, brown hair, light complexion.

Walter is in the Texas Death Index as having died in Jefferson Co, TX, not in Lousiana

Ruston Daily Leader 10 Sep 1956
Ruston Native is Wreck Victim Near Chestnut, Saturday
Ashland, La., Sept. 10-Walter E. Higginbotham, 34-year-old native of Ruston who had been making his home in Jonesboro, was one of two men who died as the result of a head-on automobile crash two miles north of Chestnut on Saturday.
The other victim was listed as Cleve Mazie, 53-year-old retired mechanic of Saline in Bienville Parish.
Higginbotham, the father of four children, died in a clinic at Hodge about half an hour after the two cars crashed on a bridge on Highway 9.
Natchitoches officials said Higginbotham, driving alone en route to Saline, apparently swerved across the center of the road just as the automobile driven by Rhodes approached.
Both vehicles met on the narrow bridge and were unable to avoid each other. Mazie and the two negroes were passengers in the Rhodes automobile. Both cars were heavily damaged.
The accident occurred near the Natchitoches-Bienville Parish line.
Funeral services for Higginbotham were incomplete today, but were to be held at the Full Gospel Church in Jonesboro, and burial will be in the Jonesboro Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Peggy Wade Higginbotham; three sons, Eddie Higginbotham, Billy Higginbotham and Albert Higginbotham; one daughter, Joan Higginbotham; his mother, Mrs. Ina Mae Sisemore of Hodge, and his stepfather, John Sisemore.
Mazie's body was taken to the Conger Funeral Home in Arcadia where funeral arrangements were incomplete this morning.

Buried Jonesboro Cemetery, Jackson Parish, LA

Birth	10 Oct 1921	Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Marriage	1940	Peggy Beth Wade
Death	8 Sep 1956	Jonesboro, Jackson Parish, Louisana

Spouse	Peggy Beth Wade (1924 - 1993)
Child	Walter Edwin Higginbotham (1943 - 1999)
Child	Delilah JoAnn Higginbotham (1944 - 2012)
Child	Albert Charles Higginbotham (1953 - 2011)

Father	Thomas Edward Higginbotham (1892 - 1934)
Mother	Ida Mae King (1901 - 1980)