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Note: Name Prefix:<NPFX> Capt. When Nelson was ten years old, his father moved to Ohio, leaving the boy with his married sister, Hannah Foote. In the course of a year Hannah died and Nelson started out on a journey of about four hundred miles to find his family in Huron County, Ohio. At the age of twenty one he married Sarah Blackman, by whom he had ten children. Becoming a convert to Mormonism, he was baptized in 1834 and was shortly after ordained a Priest and appointed to preside over a branch of the church where he resided. As a member of the Zion's camp in 1834 he marched to Missouri under the direction of the prophet Joseph Smith. He was ordained an Elder at the time of the dedication of the Kirtland Temple and soon afterwards ordained a Seventy, becoming a member of the first quorum of Seventy. In 1837 he moved to Missouri and there passed through the mobbings and persecutions endured by the "Saints" in that state. Subsequently he located in Nauvoo, Hancock county, Illinois, and left there in the general exodus with the Saints in 1846. Having arrived on the Missouri river, he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and was elected captain of Company D. He spent the winter of 1846-1847 with the sick detachment of the Battalion at Pueblo, and arrived in Salt Lake Valley July 29, 1847. In 1849, together with others, he was called to Sanpete Valley to assist in establishing a settlement there and thus he became one of the founders of Manti. Later he moved to Moroni, where he also became one of the first settlers. In 1855 he was called to Carson Valley, now in Nevada, to assist in establisling a colony of Saints there, and remained there until 1857. In 1864 he was called to go to Richfield to preside over that infant settlement, being ordained a Bishop under the hands of Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball. Richfield was temporarily abandoned in 1867 because of Indian troubles, but in 1871 when the place was resettled, Brother Higgins again returned to his post in Richfield as Bishop and labored in that capacity until 1873, when he was honorably released and moved to Brooklyn, a small settlement between Elsinore and Monroe. Here he spent the remainder of his life. Nelson was successively Captain, Major and Colonel in the Nauvoo Legion and served as general in the absence of Charles C. Rich. He was successively Captain, Major and Colonel during the Walker War while living in Sanpete, and was a Major and commanding officer all during the Black Hawk Indian War. Amidst these trying frontier conditions he reared a large family. On 4 November 1851 he married Margaret Duncan, and on 20 February, 1856 he married Nancy Meribah Behunin, by whom he raised eight children. His whole life was one of unusual activity, and he exhibited courage, devotion and faithfulness in everything with which he was associated. In the latter part of his life he was very feeble and scarcely able to move about. He died at Elsinore, Sevier County, Utah, 20 November, 1890. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MILO ANDRUS,1814-1893 We had a call from the Prophet Joseph by his brother Hyrum to get ready and go with the company of elders to the stae of Missouri, known as "Zion's Camp." During the winter of 1833 and spring of 1834, we were instructed to labor and get all the money we could, and get good rifles, and make ready to start by the first of May, 1834. We accordingly started from Florence, Huron County, Ohio, on the 7th of May, 1834. These were from the Florence branch; Nelson Higgins, Hyrum Blackman, Asey Fields, and Milo Andrus. OBJE: C:\Documents and Settings\Timothy\My Documents\genealogy pics\Nelson D Higgins CAPT.bmp
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