Source: Higgason Family History, compiled by Virginia Witherington, pg. 124

Extracted from a local Arkansas newspaper
December 1938

W. H. Higgason

William Hutson Higgason, 57, son of Naomi Jane Lee Higgason and William Larkin Higgason, who was born in Jersey, Bradley county, October 8, 1881, died at his home December 22, 1938.

Mr. Higgason attended school in this county. He married Miss Anna Rowland October 8, 1917. For thirty years, he operated a mercantile business in Jersey, and for ten years served on the Bradley County School Board.

Surviving him are a brother, J. W. Higgason of Jersey; and four sisters, Mrs. W. M. Witherington of Arkadelphia, Mrs. J. C. Wilson of Hampton, and Mrs. J. E. Martin and Mrs. H. L. Jarrett of Jersey.

Funeral services were conducted at the home by the Rev. Mr. Vaughan of Hermitage, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, also of Hermitage. Interment was in Shady Grove cemetery at Jersey.