OBITUARY: Rachel Anna Knotts Higginbotham, Douglas County, Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 2 May 2003 *************************************************************************** Roseburg (Oregon) News-Review, Friday, 16 Mar 1951, p. 2 RACHEL HIGGINBOTHAM, NATIVE OF DOUGLAS, DIES Rachel Anna Knotts Higginbotham, 76, member of a Douglas county pioneer family, died March 15 and will be buried in the Rock Point cemetery, Gold Hill, Monday, March 19. She was born Jan. 9, 1875 in Douglas county. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. George Crist, Santa Rosa, Calif.; two grandsons, Roy Stilwell, Santa Rosa, and Wayne Hughes, Salem; a granddaughter, Mrs. Richard Pargeter, Portland; three nieces, Mrs. Ed Rhoten and Mrs. Floyd Pence, Jacksonville, Ore., and Mrs. Hazel Treshem, Gold Hill; two nephews, William and Elmer Knotts, of Los Angeles, and four great-grandchildren.