Navarro County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Hightower, Richard 1897
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Frost Newspaper
Richard Hightower 

One of our most worthy citizens passes away

Richard Hightower, one of our most worthy citizens, died at his residence near
this city Wednesday night, Oct 27th [1897]of typhoid fever after a protracted
illness.

Mr. Hightower was among the pioneer citizens of this community [Frost], and a
man whose reputation as an honest and upright citizen was without spot or blemish.

For years past he had been one of the most familiar figures of his neighborhood
in every movement looking to the betterment of those about him and the up
building of all the better elements, socially and morally, and the cultivation
of that brotherly love so essential to earthly happiness and prosperity.

He was a member in good standing of the Odd Fellows and was buried by that
order, a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends following the
remainst to their last resting place in city cemetery [Frost].

To the stricken wife and mother, the News extends its kindest sympathy, and
would remind her that "earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal".

Notes:

  
Richard was born July 9, 1866 in Navarro County - the son of Raleigh and Aletha
Jane Thompson Hightower. He died Oct 27, 1897. He married Connie Percival (Feb
3, 1868-Jan 15, 1947) who married ?  Blankenship after Richard's death. I have
no information about any children.
Buried in Frost  Cemetery

      Richard Hightower
      July 9, 1866 - Oct 27, 1897

      His sisters were: Aletha Ellen, Sallie (died in 1881), Lydia who married
Frederick Miller Grimes III, R.Ben, William A Hightower

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