Rachel Phebe (Negus) Higley (1758 - 1847)

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1847 at age 89 in Windsor Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Rachel was born in 1758. She passed away in 1847.

Burial

Pioneer Cemetery, Windsor Township, Ashtabula, Ohio

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 July 2018), memorial page for Rachel Phebe Negus Higley (13 Mar 1758–3 Oct 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #32618486, citing Pioneer Cemetery, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Leroy Higley (contributor 46974473) .

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• Andrew Moore of Poquonock and Windsor, Conn., and his descendants Author: Moore, Horace L Publication: Lawrence, Kan.: Journal Pub. Co., 1903, 332 pgs.
• The Higleys and their ancestry : an old colonial family Author: Mary Coffin Johnson Publication: New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896, 796 pgs.
• History of Butler County, Pennsylvania Author: Sipe, C. Hale Publication: Topeka: Historical Pub. Co., 1927, 1334 pgs.
• Early Vital Records of Ohio, Ashtabula, Ohio, cemetery inscriptions 1800-1970. Author: DAR Publication: Film #0893724 Note: Permanent Collection, Kingwood Stake FHC, Kingwood, TX .

Notes

"The Higleys and their ancestry" p. 489:

"Just before leaving her Connecticut home, her provident spirit prompted her to go to the cider mill and gather up a little bag of apple seeds. Her neighbors ridiculed the thought that she would ever see fruit from them. But the seeds were planted in the rich fresh soil of Ohio the following spring, and grew and flourished. Seven years afterward she was allowed to enjoy the fruit produced from them. It was the first fruit grown in the township. By careful culture this apple nursery yielded a choice variety, which has since become somewhat famous, to which was given the name of "the Jonathan apple." This fruit takes its place in the nursery catalogues of to-day among the finest assortments.

Footnote: The original fruit bearing this name is claimed by a horticulturist in Central New York at a much later date. The writer, however, has conversed with a number of aged persons who clearly recalled the fact that Mrs. Rachel Higley gave her first apples, in 1811, her husband's given name (Jonathan)

The Neguses were at Boston Mass., as early as 1634, where Jonathan Negus served as clerk of records. He had a family. Israel Negus resided at Windsor Conn., the middle of the 18th century. It is supposed that Rachel negus Higley was a child or descendeant of Israel. It is a well authenticated fact that her mother was Rachel Alderman of Granby.

(MCJ, The Higleys and their Ancestry, p. 488)