Thomas HIGHTOWER [[{"id":1149,"name":"Thomas HIGHTOWER ","sex":"M","motherId":1145,"fatherId":1144}],[{"id":1144,"name":"William HIGHTOWER ","sex":"M","motherId":4592,"fatherId":4591},{"id":1145,"name":"Rebecca DORSEY ","sex":"F","motherId":4628,"fatherId":4627}],[{"id":4591,"name":"William HIGHTOWER ","sex":"M","motherId":4599,"fatherId":4598},{"id":4627,"name":"Elias DORSEY ","sex":"M","motherId":-1,"fatherId":-1},{"id":4628,"name":"Susannah ___ ","sex":"F","motherId":-1,"fatherId":-1},{"id":4592,"name":"Nancy DAVIS ","sex":"F","motherId":-1,"fatherId":4597}],[{"id":4598,"name":"William HIGHTOWER ","sex":"M","motherId":4609,"fatherId":4608},{"id":4599,"name":"Susannah HANKS ","sex":"F","motherId":-1,"fatherId":-1},{"id":4597,"name":"Jacob DAVIS ","sex":"M","motherId":-1,"fatherId":-1}],[{"id":4609,"name":"Mary BRYAN ","sex":"F","motherId":-1,"fatherId":-1},{"id":4608,"name":"John HIGHTOWER ","sex":"M","motherId":-1,"fatherId":-1}]]

Birth:	20 DEC 1814 Ref: [9] [10]
Death:	1 MAY 1862; Greene County, Georgia Ref: [11]
Death:	1896 Ref: [12]

Notes:
From "Genealogical Chart of Descendants of William Hightower 1785-1862":
"Thomas and his brother, Daniel, were close business partners and successful.
 Thomas was a Mason, made two trips to England, once to take a Masonic degree
and once on business. Was an enterprising business man, a stock raiser and
was developing a model stock farm at the time of his death in 1862."