Husband David Higbee 1
Born: 1 Oct 1821 1
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Father: Obadiah Higbee (1782-1866) 2 3
Mother: Sarah Phillips ( -1865) 1 2
Marriage: 30 Aug 1865 1
Other Spouse: Elizabeth Boyer ( -1862) 4 5 - 13 Nov 1851 1
Wife Lucinda B. Boyer 4 5
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Father: Samuel Boyer (1784/1791-1878) 5 6
Mother: Mary Boyer (1800/1803-1853) 7
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1 F Elizabeth B. Higbee 8
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2 M John Newton Higbee 8
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3 F Della L. Higbee 8
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4 F Ella Dora Higbee 8
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5 F Amy V. Higbee 8
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6 M David Higbee 8
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General Notes: Husband - David Higbee
His schooling commenced in a log school-house furnished with slab benches, and boards resting on pins driven into the wall served as writing desks; teachers were paid by subscription and boarded around among the patrons. He attended public school after that system was introduced, also Bethel Academy for a time. After teaching school a short time, he took charge of his father's farm. He lived with and took care of his parents up to the time of their death.
He was married a second time and removed to Peters township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1867, where he lived for over two decades.
His business was farming and stockraising (principally sheep). In politics he was first a Whig and Anti-Mason. He was a deeply interested observer of the formation of the Republican party, attended as a spectator its first National Convention, approved its principles, gave the party his support, and was proud of its general record.
At the age of seventeen he united with an infant Church of Christ (Disciples), now known as the Peters Creek Church of Christ, which church had been organized two years previous (1836). With six members it met in a private house until the fall of 1839, when the Church commenced worshiping in a brick meeting-house just completed by it. It became necessary to rebuild in 1858. With this Church he worshiped about fifty years, during about forty years of which time he was an elder. From 1882 to 1888 a most determined effort was made to introduce into this Church what were usually termed "progressive views and practices." The effort was only too successful. Many were leavened with the new doctrines. Those opposed to these innovations, as subversive of the faith and practice of the Church, became objects of abuse and slander. Strife ensued. Mr. Higbee, being an elder, and unyielding in his opposition to a new order of things, was particularly the subject of these attacks, which resulted in an effort to remove him from the eldership and finally led to the withdrawal of himself and family and a number of others from the Church. He claimed for himself to be open to conviction on every important subject coming before him, but nothing but convincing evidence would satisfy him. Fidelity to principle, and a conscientious discharge of duty-were, in an eminent degree, the characteristics of his ancestors, running through five generations up to our Puritan ancestry.