Have gone back to Higbee queries after QUITE a while and noticed your posting. William Tyler Higbee did have a daughter Catherine. Maude Catherine Higbee in fact. She was born December 12, 1886. My husband's grandmother. However, she married Delbert Lincoln Moore on 15 Nov. 1905 at Meadow Grove, Madison County,NE. She passed away December 16, 1987, age 101 yrs, 4 days at the hospital in Ainsworth, Brown Co., NE of pneumonia caused by aspiration after suffering a stroke during surgery on her hip. Had her hip fracture and then she fell. Lived by herself until the age of 96 or so.
Cildren all born Meadow Grove, Madison,NE.
1.Clinton Higbee Moore 1 Oct 1909. 2. Set of stillborn twins.3. Ellen Grace Moore, 22 June 1912. 4.* Minnie Oca "Mae" Moore Lucht 9 Nov 1914. 5 Living Moore 20 Sept. 1917. 6. D.H.( Donald H.Moore) and 7. twin Living Moore, 8 Aug 1922. 8 Willis Abraham Moore 20 April 1925. She told me she had 3 sets of twins. Two sets died one at about 3-4 months gestation and the other at 7 months gestation.
She lived from the time of the first airplane flights to seeing the first man on the moon.