Historical Sketches & Family Histories of Grayson County, Kentucky by the Grayson County Historical Society, Post Office Box 84, Leitchfield, Kentucky 42755, McDowell Publications, Copyright 2002.
"Eleazer Dent Higdon (1770 - 1832 or 1833) was a son of Leonard Benedict Higdon and Joannah Dent (1770 - 1832 or 1833). He married between 1805 and 1810, probably in Maryland, and lived in Rowan County, North Carolina for a brief time. A son was born there in 1808. They moved to Grayson County, where he is found on the 1818 tax list." p. 192
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65Q-JCV : accessed 5 June 2016), Samuel Higdon, Grayson county, Grayson, Kentucky, United States; citing family 490, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXWQ-K4Z : accessed 5 June 2016), Samuel Higdon, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 44, family 308, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,964.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCC2-J2W : 24 December 2015), S C Higdon in household of G W Caswell, Rock Creek, Grayson, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district ED 48, sheet 530A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0416; FHL microfilm 1,254,416.
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