Clark Lightfoot Higley (1813 - 1900)

Born 26 Nov 1813 in Edinburg, Saratoga, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Malinda (Cheney) Higley — married 17 Sep 1837 in Kirtland, Lake, Ohio

Descendants

Died 24 Mar 1900 at age 86 in Erda, Tooele, Utah, United States

Biography

Clark Lightfoot Higley was born on November 26, 1813, in Edinburg, New York to Oliver and Lucretia Higley. He married Malinda Cheney on September 9, 1837, in Kirtland, Ohio. They were the parents of Lucy Lovisa (1841-1919), Freeman Dewey (1843-1927), George Washington (1845-1925), Lucretia Jane (1848-1913), Daniel Lee (1850-1919), Harriet Maria (1853-1935), and Mary (born and died in 1855). He married Eliza Ellen Goode on August 1, 1863 in Salt Lake. They were the parents of Roxelia (1868-1869), Julia Mariah (1869-1953), Frances Alvretta (1871-1966), Eliza (born 1874), Harriet Olive (1874-1957), Joshua (born 1876), Charles Goode (1877-1973), Willis Dewey (1880-1964), Elihu Cheney (1883-1974), Dave George (born 1885), and Lydia Emma (1886-1937). He married Amanda Thompson Baker on December 2, 1865 in Salt Lake City. They were the parents of Sarah Jane (1866-1867), William Henry (born and died in 1868), Mary Alvarella (1868-1870), Charles Luther (1870-1871), James Clark (1871-1962), Lovina Persinda (1872-1904), Pearthenia Eleanor (1875-1942), George Orange (1876-1958), Stephen Lemuel (1878-1965), Oliver Asa (1879-1933), Mary Elizabeth (1882-1920), Howard Warren (1884-1965), and Melinda Alvira (1887-1988). He was a rancher. Clark died on March 24, 1900, in Erda, Utah, at the age of 86, and was buried in Tooele City Cemetery in Tooele, Utah.

• Fact: Residence (1850) Wards Grove Township, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States
• Fact: Immigration (16 August 1861) Utah, United States
• Fact: Immigration (16 August 1861)
• Fact: Immigration from Iowa to Salt Lake City, Utah (9 September 1861) David H Cannon Company
• Fact: Residence (1870) Tooele, Tooele, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Occupation (1870) Boarding House Owner Tooele, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Occupation (1870) First Flour Mill in Tooele, Utah Tooele, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Occupation (1870) Cattle Rancher Tooele, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Batesville, Tooele, Utah, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Batesville, Tooele, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Burial (26 March 1900) Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States
• Fact: Residence (1900) Batesville, Tooele, Utah Batesville, Tooele, Utah, United States

Sources

• 1850 Census: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85B-MYM : 20 December 2020), Clark Heigley, Wards Grove Township, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• 1860 Census: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M821-DDZ : 18 February 2021), Clarke Higley, 1860.

• 1870 Census: "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCY-GZ1 : 29 May 2021), Clark Higley, 1870.

• 1880 Census: "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSL-S3M : 15 January 2022), Clark Higley, Batesville, Tooele, Utah Territory, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.

• Burial: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKH-RNCX : 15 December 2020), Clark Higley, ; Burial, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States of America, Tooele City Cemetery; citing record ID 33148821, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. Find A Grave: Memorial #33148821.

• Genealogy: "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 25 April 2022, 19:02), entry for Clark Lightfoot Higley (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LCFF-TG2 ); contributed by various users.

• Genealogy: Higley, Grover Stephen. "The Higleys and Their Ancestry vol. 1 part 1.

• Marriage: "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X862-451 : 29 September 2021), Clark Higley and Malinda Cheny, 1837.

• Pioneer Database: "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9B-HTB7 : 10 February 2018), Clark Higley, 16 Aug 1861; from "Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: 1847-1868," database, > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/ : 2004-).