Seba Higley, the youngest son of James and Puella Harker, was born September, 2, 1829, in Port Byron, Cayuga Co., New York. When but three weeks and two day old, his parents started on the long trip West, which took them seven weeks and three days, and the wonderful vitality, which enable so young an infant to survive such a long hard journey, has also contributed to keeping him in fair health, at this time, 1913, being in his 85th year, and long surviving all the rest of his generation. Seba Higley Harker, youngest son of James Harker, was brought as a baby, to Peoria, Illinois, in November, 1829. His death took place in Halsey, Oregon, May 24, 1916. He had lived long enough to receive a copy of the Harker-Higley Ancestry, in which work he had been so interested and useful in securing the necessary data. His children were: Sarah Emily, Lucy D., Elizabeth Jane, Mary Etta, Clara Puella Harker. The writer wished to thank him, many times, for the generous help he has given, both in furnishing very old data, and in correcting much other that she had obtained and wished verified. All of his early life was spent at Harker Corners and vicinity. Later on, some years spent in the Middle West, and a few years in Peoria, Ill. In the year 1891, he removed to Halsey, Oregon, reaching there on July 11, where he still lives. Extract from a letter written by him: "My father used to tell me, that the old musket I used to kill prarie chickens, quail, and rabbits, was my grandfather's gun, that he had used to shoot at the British. And that my grandmother used to run three different size lead balls. One was an ounce ball, one, a blunt point, and one, a sharp pointed ball. My grandmother, on father's side, would send my grandfather those balls to shoot at the Red Coats. Yes--my grandfather carried the old musket all through the Revolutionary War with him, and when he was discharged from the Army, he asked for his old musket, and they gave it to him to take home as a trophy of the war. When I moved to Oregon, I left it with my half brother, Hiram Partridge, at Smithville, Ill., at his request. Also left the old bullet molds, made out of stone. The old musket was a flintlock. My grandfather Harker was paid in Continental money, when mustered out, and my father gave each of his five sons as piece of it to keep. Mine, I have laid away for safe keeping, and sometimes I go and look at it and think how long ago it is since he held that sacred hard earned money, in his patriotic old hands. Mine is marked seventy-five cents." (There is one other piece still in existence. Now owned by Jeremiah Harker of Denver.) Mr. Seba Harker was married at Harker Corners, Ill., July 4, 1855, to Hannah Elizabeth Mills, who was born in Washington Co., New York, Dec. 26, 1836, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mills. Mrs. Harker died in Halsey, Oregon, Sept. 9, 1902. They had children as follows: Sarah Emily, Lucy Desire, Elizabeth Jane, Mary Etta, Clara Puella.
(Source: The Harker-Higley Ancestry--Part Two, Margaret Pfeiffer Brown; Publication: M.P. Brown, 1931, pages 8, 89.)