Kate Higgins House, South Worthington, Ringville

2022-801

Kate Higgins House, South Worthington, Ringville

Houses and Barns

Black and white photograph of the home of Kate Higgins (b. December 22nd, 1847). Before moving here, Kate lived on the L. Granger place with her first husband, Eleazer Cole (son of John Cole). In 1863, they moved to the Coit place (a farm that had been in the Coit family for years) before they sold to Simeon Merritt and moved to Chesterfield on November 9th of an unknown year. Rev. Moody wrote that November 9th was a 'noted day, two deaths and two births having occurred on that day.' Perhaps one of these death's was Eleazer Cole's as Kate later married her second husband, Billings Higgins, and 'lived on the hill.' - a home that she later rented and then sold to Howard Cole, her son. After her second husband died, Kate bought this Ringville home from William Cole, who acquired it from Stephen D. Fuller, who acquired it from Elkanah Ring who built it. The house is featured in The South Worthington Parish by Rev. George Reed Moody (1905), page 65, plate V, #16. For a photo and more information about the L. Granger place, see the same book, plate I, page 50, #12. For a photo of and more information about the house 'on the hill,' see the same book, plate VI, page 68, #2.

Still Image

5 x 7 in

Howes Brothers

1903-09-01

Marion Sweeney, South Worthington

2022-09-23

Box 17

Glass

Worthington - Ringville

Featured in The South Worthington Parish by Rev. George Reed Moody (1905).

NS (2022-09-23)

Bates/'The Heritage'

Still Image - Black and White Glass Plate (negative)