Womacks and Higgins'—Kentucky to Indiana
The Womack and Higgins families had close connections in the 1800's in Southern Indiana. There have been prior queries and messages posted on Genealogy Forum sites (it's been some time ago)—My grandmother's mother (Clarinda Arlita Womack, b.1849) came from a Womack/Higgins marriage (Aaron H. Womack and Mahala F. Higgins, m.1831). I have gleaned that Mahala F. Higgins' father was John Higgins (m. Frances...............). and that Aaron H. Womack's father was Jesse Womack, jr. (m. Hannah...............). Moses P. Higgins married Mahala B. Womack in 1837, and his father was William Higgins (m. Jane Jeter). It appears that John and William were brothers, two sons of James Higgins of Virginia. The birth and marriage dates of Mahala F. and Moses P. Higgins would put them in the same generation, and I presume them to have been 1st cousins, their common ancestor having been James Higgins.—Confirmation or corrections welcomed.
From my grandmother's papers I have the Aaron H. and Mahala F. Womack family, written (I presume) in the hand of Aaron Albert Womack on three letterhead sheets reading "Military Branch/Royal Order of Moose (in orange)/A.A. Womack, Major General/135 Delaware.On the Higgins side I have a biographical column (and portrait) of Moses P. Higgins from the "Lebanon Pioneer", 24 April, 1896. It mentions his grandfather James, but not his father, and states that he and his wife had been married over fifty-nine years (35 grandchilden and 15 g-grandchildren, and that they removed (sic) to Boone County during the civil war.