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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Selden Higgins ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Higgins, Selden
LAST NAME: Higgins FIRST NAME: Selden MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1: Seldon AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 1806 DIED: 1887 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Connecticut
DEATH PLACE: Oregon
NOTES: 

Donation Land Claim 2405, Selden Higgins, Polk County; b 1808, Middlesex Co, Connecticut; Arrived Oregon 15/20 Sept 1851; settled claim 29 May 1854; m Susan 15 Nov 1849 Kennebec Co, Maine. Aff: Richard S. Wait, Walter M. Walker, A.J. Doak, B.F. McLench

1870 OR CENSUS - Seldon Higgins (60y, b Connecticut, occupation farmer) enumerated with Susan (47y, b Maine), Susan (17y, b Oregon), John (15y, b Oregon) and Ephraim (12y, b Oregon)

1880 OR CENSUS - Selden Higgins, age 71, occupation farmer, b. Maine, is enumerated with his wife Susan, age 56, b. Maine, along with John S., age 25, b. Oregon, Ephriam, age 21, b. Oregon, Ella M., age 20, b. Oregon, and Ida M., age 18, b. Oregon.  

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 

Seldon Higgins, a pioneer of 1860, who has lived near Zena, in Polk county, for thirty-five years, died of old age in his wagon, on his way home from Salem yesterday, with his son, Cranston. He was 81 years of age. He came from Springfield, Massachusetts. Rev. A. A. Thayer, a Universalist minister, recently from Iowa, was sent for here to officiate the funeral. Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) December 4, 1887

INSCRIPTION: 

Higgins
Selden
1806 - 1887
[shares marker with Susan]

SOURCES: 

Janseen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims, Vol 1, page 100

1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, FA#287)
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Bethel, ED 102, pg 6) OREG 4 Dec 1887

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