My Father - Reuben Butler Hightower, born 1909 Ghalsen, McLennan, TX, died 1964 at VA Hospital in Marlin, TX. He was the youngest son of Joseph Hampton Madison Hightower & Mary Jane 'Mimie' Fergus. His wife, Eula B. Phillips, is listed in the Phillips surname section.
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...
Researching several years - Hightower, Fergus,Shelton, Gray, Phillips,Sanders, Forrest, Horton, LeCroy, Price, Vaught, Wilkerson & others. Would like to communicate with others researching these surnames.