of Berkshire County, Massachusetts · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Roswell Higley b. 1826
parentsHosea Higley & Huldah Heath
Roswell Higley⚭ Sarah L. Cone
childrenLillie Higley · Rosa H. Higley · Hattie E. Higley · May C. Higley · Carrie Minnie Higley · Norman Orlow Higley
Their story
What the record says
Biographical and historical record of Wayne and Appanoose counties, Iowa.
Also given as E. Roswell Higley, b.
May 6, 1826.
Reared on a farm, came to Iowa 1851, married Sept 6, 1854 to Sarah L. Cone.
Settled section 11, Jefferson Township, Wayne County, Iowa.
Built a mill on Caleb Creek grinding grain and sawing lumber for settlers until 1860.
Six children, five living.
Son Norman Orlow died at age nine.
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