Elizabeth Ann Higley (Libby) was born April 1, 1850, at Bent Post later known as Benton Port, Indiana. (One family history states Elizabeth was born at Mosquito Creek, Iowa.) Her parents were Myron Spencer Higley and Priscilla Eberson and they had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1839 at Port Leydon, Lewis, New York and then traveled with a group of other converts to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, where the Higleys are listed on the registry as attending the temple Jan 12, 1846. The group then traveled to Benton Port, Iowa. Elizabeth's father was a very religious and industrious man as well as an expert horseman. The family traveled to Salt Lake City in the spring of 1851 and settled in Centerville, Utah. They later moved to Mountain Green, Morgan, Utah where they engaged in farming. Later they moved to East Weber. In 1872 the family moved to Hooper, Utah, where their last child was born. Elizabeth was the 10th of eleven children.

Elizabeth's older sister Dorcas died in Virginia City, Montana in 1964 and left two small children and her spouse, Leonidas Clark. Leonidas brought the two children to Hooper to be raised by the Higley's. There was no work in the area at the time, so Leonidas traveled back to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to work with his brother John. About 1867 he returned to Hooper to work and asked his deceased wife's younger sister, Elizabeth, to marry him. They settled in Mountain Green, Morgan, Utah and began their family. The first eight of 16 children were born in Mountain Green. They may have moved to Hooper as the next seven children were born in Hooper. The last child, Lawrence, was born in Mountain Green in 1894. The railroad purchased a right of way through their farm in Mountain Green. The railroad was completed to Promontory Point in 1969. About 1896 Leonidas and Elizabeth moved to the Jameston, Bingham, Idaho, area to purchase a farm and raise potatoes and other crops. They still had their youngest children at home, but some of their older married children had moved to Idaho previously. When they retired from farming, they purchased a nice home in which to live in Shelley, Bingham, Idaho. Leonidas died July 26, 1913. Elizabeth passed away December 13,1926 in Taylor, Bonneville, Idaho.