|
Introduction
By John Troesser
Shortly after publishing Victor
Lively's Pearl Harbor Story, by Sandy Feidler, we heard
from Maurice Higginbotham who also lives in Anderson County.
Maurice told us of his four older brothers (Marvin, Merrion, Murphy
and Milton) who were all in uniform during WWII. Since they weren't
drafting 10 year-olds, Maurice had to sit out the war. His brothers
help make it possible for him to marry the girl next door - which
he did. Maurice has since inherited the role of family biographer,
since, we're sad to say, his brothers have all passed away.
Maurice has collected the correspondence between the family and
the four far-flung brothers and had nearly 500 letters plus photographs
published in book form. For our readers who live in Anderson (or
neighboring counties) it's available in the Palestine Public Library.
We've
separated the Higginbotham Family History during WWII into five
parts listed above.
I hope you'll find the stories as interesting as we did. Dodging
V-2 Rockets, crash-landing in Belgium, and taking French real estate
away from Germans again and again - it's enough to make you wish
you were back in East Texas milking the family cow. - Editor
Our special thanks to Maurice and Edna Higginbotham for sharing
these stories with us and our readers.
|
