Mary-Beth Higgins

 

 

Age: 85

 

Summary: last living daughter of a Union soldier in Kansas whose father David P. Higgins was one of four men to have survived in the Battle of Clutchensville outside Kansas City, Missouri that killed 150 men in less than six days on May 19, 1867 and who was born when her father was 76 years old in 1922 (her father later died when she was 12 years old).

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed during a tornado outbreak

 

Born: December 25, 1922

 

Died: June 21, 2008

 

Location: Spruce Ridge, Kansas