Higgins, Cecelia Davis, 1794-1846
Cecelia Davis was born in 1794 in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. She married David Higgins in 1815 and together they had four children. The couple moved several places, as David Higgins practiced law and was appointed as a Circuit Judge in the northern Ohio area. The family was in Maumee when the “Toledo War” broke out over the dispute of the boundary between Ohio and Michigan. Judge Higgins decided the case and the U.S. government had to step in. Afterward, President Polk recalled the family to Washington D.C. where Cecelia Davis Higgins died on November 22, 1846. She is buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington D.C.
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[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her sister, Ann Upshur Eyre, October 18, 1813]
Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her sister, Ann Upshur Eyre. She wishes for better health for Ann, John Eyre, Anne Billings Steel Upshur, and Virginia Upshur, as they have been sick. She discusses politics, her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle's interests, and jokes about receiving an ewe from colonel Wilson. She asks about Louisa Bowdoin and Marry Ann Smith Gilmor's trip to Baltimore and closes with well wishes to friends.