Documentation for William Higgins and Ruth Richardson


Census Data

  1840 1850 1860 1870 1880
William Higgins ? 54 64 dead
Ruth (Richardson) Higgins ? 53 63 73
[see note below]		 dead
    Nathaniel W. Higgins ? 18 living in separate household
    Lewis T. Higgins ? 14 24
[see note below]		 married and living in separate household

1850 Eden [now Bar Harbor], Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 140, family 145. Also living in this household in 1850 was Giles H. Mayo (7 y., b. Maine).



1860 Eden [now Bar Harbor], Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 70, family 64. By 1860, Lewis T. Higgins was married, and his wife, Almada D. (Brown) Higgins, was living in this household. Also living in this household in 1860 was Clara E. Brown (2 y., b. Maine).



1870 Eden [now Bar Harbor], Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 212, family 206. Ruth Higgins was living in the household of son Lewis T. Higgins in 1870. It is possible that she and Lewis and family were living in the same dwelling that he grew up in, but that now he was listed first in the census record for that house.