Higgs Family Files
Higgs Family Group circa 1915
Family of Thomas Franklin Higgs of Anes Station, Marshall County. Thomas was the fourth child of John Higgs (1832-1902) and Susie Thompson (1840-1869). Thomas had a brother named Robert Monroe (1862-1900) who married Josie Rutledge (1870-1900). Robert and Josie died of typhoid fever in 1900. Thomas Franklin Higgs (1868-1930) and his wife Anes Edith Cheatham (1872-1936) raised his brother's four children (Revis, Elvie Mae, Robert Roy, and Emily Lena) and six of their own (Robert Lee, John Curtis, Katherine Edith, Lura Edna, Alfred Cheatham, and Thomas Franklin) to adulthood. The picture contains both sets of children (some spouses) and Thomas's half sister Hollie. // (Back Row) Edith Katherine Higgs, Robert Roy Higgs, Eunice Bell, John Curtis Higgs, Elvie Mae Higgs, Robert Lee Higgs,Hollie Higgs, Revis Higgs, William Saxon // (Front Row) Thomas Franklin Higgs Alfred Cheatham Higgs, Anes Edith Cheatham Higgs, Thomas Franklin Higgs (on mother'slap), Lura Edna Higgs, Annie Mae Higgs, Revis D. Higgs (on mother's lap), Emily Lena Higgs Saxon, and Robert Benjamin Saxon (on mother's lap) // contributed by Julia Higgs, 1999