Revival History

 LUCY HIGGS NICHOLS: FROM SLAVERY IN TENNESSEE TO ULTIMATE FREEDOM IN NEW ALBANY, INDIANA Lucy Higgs was born a slave on April 10, 1838 in Halifax Co., North Carolina. She was owned by the Reuben & Eliza Higgs family. When Reuben Higgs moved his family to about 30 miles from Bolivar, Tennessee in 1839, Lucy was among the slaves brought there by her owners. In 1848, she was listed as chattel property belonging to Winnaford Amanda Higgs, minor heir of Reuben Higgs, who had died in May 1845.  After Winnaford Amanda died, several members of the Higgs family fought one another in court for the right to claim Lucy as their property. Lucy escaped from the Higgs family in June of "1862 after learning about an impending move that would take her [farther] south—and [farther] from freedom. Lucy, along with her daughter Mona, and several other slaves, managed to escape and travel roughly 30 miles to Bolivar, Tennessee. Here, the two encountered the 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment and b...

 1127) Dr. John Stough Bobbs “Father of Gall Bladder Surgery” Grave- (Crown Hill Cemetery) Indianapolis, Indiana  John Stough Bobbs (1809–1870), was the first surgeon to carry out an elective operation on the gall bladder for gall stones. Indy Star Article June 29, 2018: Over 150 years ago, with little to no fanfare, medical history was made in Indianapolis.  The patient was Mary Wiggins, a 31-year-old seamstress who was forced to quit work because the mass in her abdomen had grown since she first noticed it four years prior.  Dr. John S. Bobbs consulted and was confident it was not an ovarian tumor as many had suspected. He also didn't know what it could be.  In agony, Wiggins begged for an operation. Bobbs wrote in the Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, “She …  so persisted in the request that I should undertake its removal, that I finally consented to make the attempt.” Indianapolis had no surgical hospital at the time, no sterile operatin...