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Elton Lee Higginbotham 1914 - 2006

Elton Lee Higginbotham of Memphis, Shelby County, TN was born on May 6, 1914, and died at age 92 years old on May 6, 2006. Elton Higginbotham was buried at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Section MM Site 23485 4000 Forest Hill-irene Rd, in Memphis.

Elton Lee Higginbotham

Memphis, Shelby County, TN 38134

May 6, 1914

May 6, 2006

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Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PVT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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Elton Lee Higginbotham lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.

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In 1914, in the year that Elton Lee Higginbotham was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

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In 1928, at the age of just 14 years old, Elton was alive when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.

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