Pinkney Monroe Higgins

Notes:

Story Told By: Diane E. Day
Used with permission.
http://www.oocities.org/family_quest/shortstory_higgins.html

How Pink Higgins Came To West Virginia

"I have made a connection to your Greever Higgins. My grandmother knew him as Pink (or Pinkham). He was a half-brother to my grandmother's grandmother."

"Pink's mother [Sarah] carried him [in her arms] all the way up here to Bandy from North Carolina. Her 1st husband, from whom I descend, had been killed in the Civil War. She later married Johnny Higgins. Supposedly, Johnny came ahead to Tazewell County to prepare a home for Sarah/Sallie and Pink. Sarah couldn't wait and decided to make the trip alone with Pink."

"The story goes that she made her way north, [walking and] stopping at farms, and they would feed her along the way. She was said to have buried the left over food that she had so as not to attract the bears. Like I said, I have no proof of it, but have word of mouth by my grandmother, and another distant cousin who lives down the road from me."

"I live in Bandy, VA in sinking waters. Pink lived almost across the road from me. My grandmother doesn't remember him very well, just that her "Uncle Pink" and Aunt Mary Higgins spent the night with them on occasion. My grandmother owns the property where Pink and Mary lived in a log house at one time."

"His mother first married James P. Sparks, it is only a family tradition that her maiden name was Spicer."

NOTE: 'Pink' was turned out of the church for trading horses on Sunday.
Additional memory/note shared by: Frank Cyphers, July 1999

Name:
Name may have been Pinkham.

Buried:
Grave location and Portrait:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21279125

Died:
West Virginia Death Certificate
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1329087&Type=Death

Pinkney married Mary Jane Whitt. Mary was born 09 Sep 1868, Tazewell Co. VA; died 08 May 1945, Tazewell Co. VA; was buried , Sparks Family Cemetery, Bandy, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

1. Charles Greever Higgins was born 01 Jan 1891, Tazewell Co. VA; died 09 Mar 1957, Bluefield, Mercer Co. WV; was buried , Monte Vista Cemetary, Mercer Co. Bluefield, WV.