Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families Vol II, 769

Eleanor (Ellen) Marie Jones. She was born 18 November 1805. She married in January 1852 to the Rev. George Higgins in Montgomery Baptist Church, Colmar, Pennsylvania. Ellen was the second wife of the Rev. George Higgins, who bacame pastor of Montgomery Baptist Church in 1850. In a history of the Church, prepared in 1895, there is a picture and biography of George Higgins, who was born in England, 16 December 1798 and died in Comar, Pennsylvania, 9 March 1869, and as buried at the church there. Of his marriage to Ellen Jones the history stated, "It was celebrated on a bright, moonlight, winter evening in January, 1852, in the church, and, as the sleighing was good, the attendance was very large." There were no children by this marriage, but George Higgins had 6 by his first wife. (Edward Mathews, History of Mongomeyr Baptist Church (Ambler, Pa 1895), 32-35. There is a copy of this book at the Historical Society of Pennyslvania)