He married Mary Agnes McKinney on March 1, 1863, in Polk Co., MO, officiated by his grandfather, James Rane McKinney.
Known children:
John Thomas
Elizabeth Rachel Lee (McReynolds)
Mary Catherine "Kate" (Cunningham)
Lucy Alice (Holt)
Gideon Franklin
James William
Mattie Laura (Moffitt)
Ella May
Charley W.
During the Civil War, he was a private in the Union Army (Home Guard) in Company A, 8th Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry from January 1862, until honorably discharged 0n Nov. 19, 1863.
He was pastor of Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in 1883, and ordained as a Minister of the Gospel on May 13, 1888.
(Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Gideon H. Higginbotham, Rev. History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri 1889, Published by Goodspeed, pp. 652, 653, Polk County Biographies Section. Reminiscence of Rev. Gideon H. Higginbotham - Published in "Bolivar Herald Newspaper" in 9 parts in 1921.)
He married Mary Agnes McKinney on March 1, 1863, in Polk Co., MO, officiated by his grandfather, James Rane McKinney.
Known children:
John Thomas
Elizabeth Rachel Lee (McReynolds)
Mary Catherine "Kate" (Cunningham)
Lucy Alice (Holt)
Gideon Franklin
James William
Mattie Laura (Moffitt)
Ella May
Charley W.
During the Civil War, he was a private in the Union Army (Home Guard) in Company A, 8th Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry from January 1862, until honorably discharged 0n Nov. 19, 1863.
He was pastor of Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in 1883, and ordained as a Minister of the Gospel on May 13, 1888.
(Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Gideon H. Higginbotham, Rev. History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri 1889, Published by Goodspeed, pp. 652, 653, Polk County Biographies Section. Reminiscence of Rev. Gideon H. Higginbotham - Published in "Bolivar Herald Newspaper" in 9 parts in 1921.)
Family Members
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John James Higginbotham
1845–1933
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Sarah Elizabeth Higginbotham Botts
1848–1906
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Reuben Franklin Higginbotham
1851–1929
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Mary Ann Higginbotham Vickrey
1853–1914
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Joseph Thomas Higginbotham
1855–1942
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Dr William W. Higginbotham
1857–1914
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Rev Martin Taylor Higginbotham
1859–1940
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Robert M Higginbotham
1866–1882
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John Thomas Higginbotham
1864–1925
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Elizabeth Rachel Lee Higginbotham McReynolds
1866–1950
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Mary Catherine "Kate" Higginbotham Cunningham
1867–1899
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Lucy Alice Higginbotham Holt
1872–1949
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Ella May Higginbotham
1877–1879
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Rev Gideon Franklin Higginbotham
1878–1936
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Mattie Laura Higginbotham Moffitt
1883–1943
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Infant Son Higginbotham
1884–1884
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Charley W Higginbotham
1886–1886
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