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Show F1HGMM DIES IN SALT LAI Francis David Higglnbotham, Sr , aged G3 vcars, a pioneer merchant of Utah, scion of a large family, many TTlftmhorc rf xi'hlrMi nro nrnmlnonf ,i this stnto, died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the residence- of his daughter, Mrs. Louise M. Woodman, 154 Seventh East stfeet. Salt Lake, as the result of heart trouble induced by a recent, attack of pneumonia. Mr. Higglnbotham had been ill with pneu monla for tho past six weeks and it was believed that ho had entirely recovered re-covered from tho sickness. Funeral services will bo held in Salt Lake at lOo'clock Tuesday morning morn-ing at the residence of Mrs. Woodman. Wood-man. The body will be brought to Ogden the same day on the 12 o'clock noon train, and Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock funeral services will bo hold in the Fourth ward meeting house at Ogden. Interment will be in tho Ogden Og-den Citv cemetery. Mr. Higglnbotham is survived by a widow, Elizabeth; sons and daughters, daugh-ters, Frank D Jr., Mrs. Louisa M. Woodman and Mrs, Ltitia Thornberg, all of Salt Lake; Simon H. of Pros-ton, Pros-ton, Ida.; Earl E, of Salt Lake; Mrs. Rosalia tfooro of Los Angeles. Cal. . There is one sister survivor, Mrs. D. M. Peery of Ogden, and fourteen grandchildren. Mr. Hlggjnbotham was born in Nan- j voo, III., March 24, 1848, and his parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hlggin-botham, Hlggin-botham, wore staunch members of the Mormon church in the early days. While Mr. Higglnbotham was still a young man, his parents and their, four children, Nancy, Simon S., Eliza- ! beth, Letitia and himself, reirioved to Burkes Gardes, Va. It was there that Nancy Higgin-botham Higgin-botham met and married David H Peery, whom she converted to the Mormon faith. William E. Higglnbotham Higgln-botham and Mrs. David H. Peery died during the sojourn of the family in Burkes Garden. Shortly afterward, Mrs Loulso Ward Higglnbotham, tho widow and her three children, moved westward across the plains, arrlvlne In this valley with tho later pioneers who followed Brigham Young, in the year 18G4 David H. Peery came with I them and married his former wife's j sister, Elizabeth Letitia, one year lat- , er. During the pilgrimage of the party across tho plalnsfi frequent attacks by Indians wore met ant repulsed. In these skirmishes Mr. Higglnbotham dlsplaved unusual courage and generalship, gen-eralship, evoking the confidence and lovo of all. In 18G8, after his arrival ar-rival in Utah, Mr Higglnbotham married mar-ried Eliznbeth A RawEon. daughter of Daniel B. Rawson, one of the original lond of pioneers, who distinguished himself qs a member of the Mormon battalion. The marriage took place In Ogden, where the Higglnbotham familv had taken up residence after settling in Provo valley and the curly village or Cottonwood, respectively, Mr. Hlgginbothain was a leading merchant of Chiden in (he days wJicn that city was changing frojm, a small town to a prosperous city. Ho was associated closely with his brother-in-law, David II. Poery, ono of the most prominent businoBB men of Ogden, during hia life. Mis. Elizabeth Letitia Peery la tho mother of Henry, Joseph, Horace. Harold Peery and Mrs. IxjuIso I Fulkerson of Chicago, Frank, Louis and Harmon Pcerv and two Jnfanl daughters, now dead. |