(John?) Oldham HIGHTOWER & Sarah Jane PARKER

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(John?) Oldham HIGHTOWER
Sarah Jane PARKER

Husband: (John?) Oldham HIGHTOWER
Birth: 17 Sep 1744, Brunswick Co., VA
Death: 24 Oct 1823, Lauderdale Co., AL
Father: Austin Augustine HIGHTOWER
Mother: Martha Jane OLDHAM

Marriage:

Wife: Sarah Jane PARKER
Birth: bef. 1750

Children — born in NC:

1. Richard R. HIGHTOWER, b. 25 May 1764 ***
2. Joseph HIGHTOWER, b. 1768
3. (John) Oldham HIGHTOWER, b. 28 Dec 1769
4. Hardy HIGHTOWER, b. 28 Dec 1779, Buncombe Co., NC
5. James HIGHTOWER
6. Jane HIGHTOWER, b. 1786, French Broad River, Buncombe Co., NC

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Sources:

1. John Trotwood Moore, ed. 1923. Tennessee, the Volunteer State, 1769-1923. S.J. Clarke Publ., Chicago (online at GenealogyLibrary.com):

p. 903 PETITION OF WATAUGA ASSOCIATION TO BE ANNEXED TO NORTH CAROLINA ...dated July 5, 1776...
The humbel petition of the inhabitants of the Washington District, including the River Wataugah, Nonachuckie, &c...

p. 905 David Crockett...
Oldham Hightower...
Frederick Vaughn...
John Davis...

Our subject is the only Oldham HIGHTOWER old enough to have signed the Watauga Petition.

2. Marjorie Hood Fischer. 1996. Tennesseans before 1800, Washington County. Frontier Press, Galveston, TX. The book is an index, not the records themselves. On p. 150:

Name Record Type Year Pg

Hightower, Oldum Tax List: Isbell's Dist. 1778 639

This is the only HIGHTOWER record in the book.

3. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1800 (Broderbund CD-312). Please see my WARNING regarding use of this database (the numerical data have the genders switched).

1800 Census Hightower, Oldham NC Buncombe Co. p. 713 01001-0010103

These data should read:

00101-01001-03

which indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 male 16-25 1774-1784 = Hardy (b. 1779)

1 male 45 or over in or bef. 1755 = Oldham (b. 1744)

1 female 10-15 1784-1790 = Jane (b. 1786)

1 female 45 or over in or bef. 1755 = Sarah (b. bef. 1750)

3 slaves all ages in or bef. 1800 = names unknown

Also in Buncombe Co.: John's brother, Austin HIGHTOWER, Jr.

4. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com): about 40 files here refer to our subject, with about half calling him John Oldham and the other half calling him just Oldham.

5. Email from Ruth Hightower Smith: insists he is Oldham, not John Oldham.

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