HIGENS, Samuel F. (1859-1923)

HIGENS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/26/2020 at 12:22:02

Samuel Francis Higens
(January 6, 1859 – December 5, 1923)

Samuel Francis Higens was born January 6, 1859, at Eddyville, Iowa, and came with his parents to Warren County when he was but seven years of age, settling at Greenbush, near the present town of Spring Hill, where he has since resided. He was united in marriage March 8, 1881, to Miss Bertha Orr, who with ten children survive him, one child having preceded him in death. The children are Mrs. Sadie Williams of Neiber, Wyoming; Mrs. Maude Bedwell of Valley Junction, Guy Higens of Des Moines, Frank of Tupper Creek, Canada, Mrs. Opal Kepley of Emmetsburg, Harold Higens of Prole, Mrs. Hazel Garrison of Spring Hill, Mrs. Ethel DeVault of Norwalk, and Dean and Ralph at home. There are also 17 grandchildren. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Emma Tilton of Ankeny and two brothers, John of Greenfield and Thomas of Denver, Colorado.
Mr. Higens has labored under a sore affliction the most of his life, yet as long as health would permit rendered his service to the world as a carpenter by trade. Having received a fall last September he has since been failing in health. During which time he has been tenderly cared for by his wife and children, until he answered the call of the death angel Wednesday morning, December 5, 1923, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Maude Bedwell at Valley Junction. He was 64 years, 10 months and 29 days of age. He had been a kind husband and father, a good neighbor and an upright citizen in the community in which he has spent most of his life.
Card of Thanks – We wish to thank the friends and neighbors for the flowers. – Mrs. S. F. Higens and children. [Copied from a scrapbook at the Warren County Historical Society Library, Indianola, Iowa]