Puffer Genealogy
HIGLEY, Myron Spencer
1801 - 1887 (85 years)
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Name HIGLEY, Myron Spencer Birth 29 Dec 1801 Simsbury, CT 
Gender Male AFN 4MPN-1J FindaGrave _COLOR 11 Death 15 Jun 1887 Hooper, UT Burial 19 Jun 1887 Hooper, UT Address:
Hooper CemeteryPerson ID I974 Puffers Last Modified 27 Aug 2022
Father HIGLEY, Job, b. 31 Jul 1768, Simsbury, CT d. 1808 (Age 39 years) Mother EGGLESTON, Dorcas, b. 2 Feb 1772, Wintonbury, CT d. Abt 1803, Bridgewater, NY (Age 30 years) Marriage 9 May 1792 Windsor, CT [1] Family ID F4989 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family EBBERSON, Priscilla, b. 1 Aug 1799, New Brunswick, Canada d. 21 Jan 1892, Hooper, UT (Age 92 years) Marriage Jun 1836 Leeds Village, Beauce, Quebec, Canada Children 1. HIGLEY, Nelson, b. 1 Apr 1827, Leeds, Ontario, Canada d. 1828, Leeds, Ontario, Canada (Age 0 years)2. HIGLEY, Clarissa, b. 21 Oct 1829, Leeds, Ontario, Canada d. 1873, Pueblo County, CO (Age 43 years)3. HIGLEY, George Washington, b. 20 Nov 1831, Leeds, Ontario, Canada d. 24 Sep 1905, Hooper, UT (Age 73 years)4. HIGLEY, Edwin, b. 12 Nov 1833, Port Leyden, NY d. 10 Apr 1852 (Age 18 years)5. HIGLEY, Adeline, b. 23 Jun 1836, Leeds Magantic, Quebec, Canada d. 1921, ID (Age 84 years)6. HIGLEY, Abigail, b. 6 Oct 1838, Port Leyden, NY d. 4 Mar 1928, Hooper, UT (Age 89 years)7. HIGLEY, James, b. Jul 1841, Port Leyden, NY d. Aft Jul 1841, Port Leyden, NY (Age > 0 years)8. HIGLEY, Dorcas Cynthia, b. 2 Dec 1845, Port Leyden, NY d. 10 Oct 1864, Virginia City, MT (Age 18 years)9. HIGLEY, Mary Jane, b. 13 Feb 1847, Van Buren, IA d. 22 Feb 1934, Ogden, UT (Age 87 years)10. HIGLEY, Elizabeth Ann, b. 1 Apr 1850, Bentonsport, IA d. 11 Dec 1926, Taylor, ID (Age 76 years)11. HIGLEY, Myron Spencer Jr., b. 6 Feb 1853, Uintah, UT d. 12 Jul 1928, Nampa, ID (Age 75 years)Family ID F3896 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2024
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Notes - Myron S. Higley, son of Job Higley and Dorcus Eggleston, was born in Simsbury, Ct., December 29th, 1801. His father supposed to be dead, in his 12th year Myron, with a younger brother, was leased to an uncle, but not relishing the treatment they there received, left without warning after two years' service; wandered off some forty miles and were kindly taken in by a stranger with whom they lived some years, when they went to Gananoqui [sic] Canada, and engaged in the business of turning wooden bowls and making water buckets, which Myron exported in large quantities.
He married Priscilla Ebberson, October 1885 [Note: Jun 1826 is correct date]; heard and embraced the Gospel just before the Patriot War and moved to New York State; presided over a branch of the church in Port Leyden two years; made his mother a visit and converted her to the truth of the gospel, but her husband (for supposing Myer's [sic] father to be dead, she married again) being so much opposed to the religion, she concluded not to be baptized then, and requested that one of her daughters should perform that rite for her if she failed to do it for herself. While there, on that visit, Elder Higley preached night and day, as the people would give him no rest. They sent for the smartest preachers in the country round, but their doctrines were not sufficiently substantial to stand before the gospel as expounded by the Elder who to get a little rest obliged to conceal himself, "or else," said he, "they would have preached me to death."
He now discovered that his father was not dead, and that one of his brothers went to see him where he was established as a merchant in the City of New York. Having been brought into some disgrace through the treachery of a supposed friend while doing business for a rich man, Job Higley would not write of his whereabouts and concluded not to return home until he had regained both wealth and character, and when he afterwards possessed both, and learned that his wife was married again, he would not go to see his family.
Elder Higley moved to Nauvoo in time to participate in the persecutions inflicted upon the Saints there. From Nauvoo he moved to Benton's Fort on the Des Moines River then to Council Bluffs, and from there to Uintah, Utah, in 1852, helping a family across the plains. He went from Uintah to Mountain Green, then to Morgan, and from there to Hooper where he resided until his demise. His family number eleven children, seventy-one grandchildren and fifty-six great grandchildren. He was tender hearted, strictly honest and a faithful devotee of Mormonism.
- Myron S. Higley, son of Job Higley and Dorcus Eggleston, was born in Simsbury, Ct., December 29th, 1801. His father supposed to be dead, in his 12th year Myron, with a younger brother, was leased to an uncle, but not relishing the treatment they there received, left without warning after two years' service; wandered off some forty miles and were kindly taken in by a stranger with whom they lived some years, when they went to Gananoqui [sic] Canada, and engaged in the business of turning wooden bowls and making water buckets, which Myron exported in large quantities.
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Sources - [S576] Connecticut Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920.
- [S576] Connecticut Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920.
