The Abilene Daily Reporter 08/29/1935

Aged Scurry Woman Dead
Mrs. A.T. Higginbotham, Mother of 4 Abilenians
Mrs. A.T. Higginbotham of Hermleigh, pioneer of Scurry county and the mother of four Abelenians, died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday night at 8:05 following an illness of eight weeks. She was 74 years of age on August 11.
Abilene children are E.H. Higginbotham, T.S. Higginbotham, D.L. Higginbotham and C.E. Higginbotham.
Funerals rites will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Baptist church at Hermleigh, and burial was made in the cemetery beside the graves of Mr. Higginbotham, who died February 10.
Ill since early in the summer, Mrs. Higginbotham had gone to Dallas three weeks ago for treatment. Last Friday, she underwent major surgery, but failed to respond and her condition immediately became grave. She slowly sank until death came Wednesday night.
Her body is being tonight to Hermleigh by train. Members of the family from Fort Worth and Dallas will come here later today, and will accompany Abilene relatives to Hermleigh early Friday.
Emily Strickland was born August 11, 1861, near Camden, Arkansas. She was the only daughter of Captain E.E. Strickland, who served in the Confederate army to his death. He was killed in battle at Pleasant Hill, La. Later her mother moved to near Oxford, Alabama, where Miss Strickland was married to A. T. Higginbotham in 1875. The Higginbothams moved to from Alabama to Dublin in 1889, and then to Scurry county in 1898. Mrs. Higginbotham was a member of the Baptist church from childhood.
Mrs. Higginbotham was the mother of eleven children, all of whom are living except one. Besides the Abilene sons, the children are G.R. Higginbotham and A.D. Higginbotham, Hermleigh; Mrs. Jack Bowling, Snyder; L.J. Higginbotham, Dallas; W.A Higginbotham, Fort Worth; A.L. Higginbotham, Dallas.