Died in Camp Hicks at Taliaferro Field as a result of an airplane crash.
Washington Post 02/24/1918
James Horace Higginbotham (1893-1918) TX
Higginbotham Falls 1,000 Feet
Horace Higginbotham, former All-American football star from Yale, and a cadet naval aviator at Hicks field, near here, also was killed this afternoon when the airplane in which he was flying fell 1,000 feet.
The wreck was discovered an hour after the accident by a farmer who had seen the plane fall. He thought at the time that the aviators were descending in full control of the machine.
Higginbotham was the son of R. W. Higginbotham, a wealthy business man of Dallas, Tex.
Died in Camp Hicks at Taliaferro Field as a result of an airplane crash.
Washington Post 02/24/1918
James Horace Higginbotham (1893-1918) TX
Higginbotham Falls 1,000 Feet
Horace Higginbotham, former All-American football star from Yale, and a cadet naval aviator at Hicks field, near here, also was killed this afternoon when the airplane in which he was flying fell 1,000 feet.
The wreck was discovered an hour after the accident by a farmer who had seen the plane fall. He thought at the time that the aviators were descending in full control of the machine.
Higginbotham was the son of R. W. Higginbotham, a wealthy business man of Dallas, Tex.
Family Members
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Louise Harris Higginbotham Nash
1885–1962
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Nina Belle Higginbotham Boggess
1887–1963
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Alice Higginbotham Lang
1889–1961
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Julia Higginbotham
1891–1892
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Rufus Wilson Higginbotham Jr
1896–1988
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John Taylor Higginbotham
1900–1966
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Hattie Smith Higginbotham Stewart
1902–1982
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Frances Elizabeth Higginbotham Nalle
1904–1973
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Thomas Higginbotham
1908–1908
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Joseph Lattimore Higginbotham
1908–1965
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