Higgerson, Benjamin

UNKNOWN - 1862

• Name	Higgerson, Benjamin
  Birth	UNKNOWN	Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	HIGG.B004
  _FGRAVE	28110917
  Death	25 Dec 1862	Wilderness, Orange County, Virginia
  Person ID	I56002	Carl Wayne Gray Research
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2024

  
  

  Family	Chewning, Permelia,   b. 27 Jan 1830, Spotsylvania County, Virginia d. 28 May 1897, New Madrid County, Missouri (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F20226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Oct 2026

  
  

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• Notes

  Benjamin Higgerson (also Higgason) was born in Virginia about 1810 and died on Christmas Day, 1862, of smallpox. Family history states he contracted smallpox from a sick soldier taken into the home by his wife, Permelia (Chewning) Higgerson. Their farm was literally in the Battle of the Wilderness. There is only a stone marker to mark his grave, and some members of the Dempsey family may be buried there as well, according to H. Mercer Quann, who told that to various members of the Higgerson family when they visited him prior to his selling the farm to the National Park Service. According to family history, Benjamin was buried in a hollowed out log by slaves.