Mary Elizabeth (Glazner) Ashworth (1890 - 1973)

Born 13 Jul 1890 in DeKalb, Alabama, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Horace Cleveland Higginbotham — married 20 Oct 1913 (to 11 Apr 1921) in Fort Payne, DeKalb, Alabama, United States

Died 24 Jun 1973 at age 82 in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Mary was born in 1890. She passed away in 1973.

BURIAL Crestwood Memorial Cemetery East Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama, USA

The Gadsden Times, page 2, Monday, June 25, 1973: Mrs. Mary Ashworth, 82, Short Jackson Street, died at the residence yesterday after a sudden illness. Survivors, daughter, Mrs. Odell Neese, Chunchula; Mrs. Veneda Ingram, Gadsden; Mrs. Lamar Meadows, Collinsville; sons, Stewart Higgingbotham, Gadsden; Nelson Higgingbotham, Florence; step-sons, James Ashworth, Georgia; Carey Ashworth, Mobile; sisters, Mrs. Bessie Cleland, Gadsden; brother, Reuben Glazner, Leesburg; 19 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral service tomorrow at South 11th Stret Baptist Church and burial in Crestwood Cemetery. She was a native of DeKalb County and a resident of Etowah County for 15 years. Mrs. Ashworth was a member of South 11th Street Baptist Churh; Ladies Auxiliary Barracks 1237 and South Gadsden Home Demonstration Club. Collier-Butler Funeral Home in charge of arrangments.

Sources

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK9P-KK4 : 15 February 2018), Mary Elizabeth Ashworth, 24 Jun 1973; citing reference 15135, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 2,242,019.

• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1M-5FKY : 19 February 2021), Horace Higginbotham and Mary Glazner, 20 Oct 1913; citing Fort Payne, DeKalb, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm .

• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-2JH7 : 8 November 2017), Mary Elizabeth Glazener in entry for Stewart Joseph Higginbatham and Charlott Otilia Ashley, 21 Nov 1940; citing Etowah, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 2,312,140.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXZF-M2R : accessed 13 May 2019), Mary Higginbotham in household of H C Higginbotham, Brindleys, Dekalb, Alabama, United States; citing ED 66, sheet 9A, line 21, family 153, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 12; FHL microfilm 1,820,012.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158664014/mary-elizabeth-ashworth

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/L27N-P6N