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The Higgs Family. Thomas J. Higgs (deceased), father of this interesting family, was a son of Thomas Higgs, one of the early settlers of Georgia. Thomas J. Higgs was a farmer of Western Tennessee, and was married in 1845, to Miss Sarah Reynolds, a native of Kentucky. They moved to the State of Mississippi, where Mr. Higgs’ death occurred, on May 8, 1860. Mrs. Higgs removed from Mississippi to Arkansas, in 1882, where she lives with her son, Thomas H. (who was born January 11, 1846), his occupation being that of a school teacher and farmer. J. C. Higgs was born July 25, 1856, and received a good education in the common schools of Tennessee. At the age of eighteen he commenced teaching school, and followed his chosen profession of teaching for several years. In 1882 he joined his mother’s family in Conway, Ark., and once more engaged in teaching, which he carried on for six years. Mr. Higgs is a member and Junior Deacon of Green Grove Lodge No. 107, A. F. & A. M., at Conway, Ark., having been made a Mason in East Fork Lodge No. 327, in Faulkner County, Ark. He is also a member of Palmetto Chapter No. 47, of the Order of the Eastern Star. He was secretary of East Fork Lodge No. 327, one year, and October 20, 1886, at the meeting of the Grand Chapter of Arkansas, at Russellville, was elected Grand Secretary for the State, and has been three times re-elected—the second time at Harrison, the third at Little Rock, the fourth time at Conway, and is the present incumbent. He is a stanch Democrat, and exerts a local influence in that direction, being always among the first to give support to enterprises of a public character and is liberal in his contributions to the same. Mrs. Higgs and her family are members of the Christian Church, and are well known for their generosity in matters pertaining to that church.