Strange DNA
Merging paper sources with DNA to Ancient Roots to Ireland, Scotland & Scandinavia through Europe to Armenia.
[Mary] Edna Marshall Hightower
1853 - 1928 (74 years)-
Name [Mary] Edna Marshall Hightower [1, 2] Born 15 Mar 1853 Russell or Montgomery County, Alabama 
[3, 4, 5] - possible counties as Catherines other children were born there
Gender Female Died 29 Jan 1928 Amarillo, Potter, TX [6, 7, 8] Person ID I2344 Strange Genealogy Last Modified 11 Mar 2015
Father Asbury Waters Hightower, b. 24 Jun 1819, Alabama , d. 10 Jan 1879, Grandview, Johnson, Tx (Age 59 years) Mother Catherine Ozier, b. 23 Sep 1818, Alabama OR NC , d. 15 Jul 1886, Hood, Texas (Age 67 years) Married 12 Sep 1852 Russell, Alabama [9, 10] Family ID F1696 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Father ? Marshall Family ID F4039 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 ? Hightower Children 1. Beatrice Hightower, b. Jul 1876, Texas 2. Otis W. Hightower, b. Mar 1882, Texas Last Modified 23 Jul 2018 Family ID F1695 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 G. K. Brewer Married 3 Oct 1872 Johnson County, TX [11, 12] Last Modified 26 Apr 2012 Family ID F3018 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 3 Latino Children 1. Minnie Canana Hightower, b. 5 Oct 1870, Grandview, Johnson, Tx , d. 9 Mar 1936, Mineral Wells, Texas (Age 65 years)Last Modified 23 Jul 2018 Family ID F4038 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Spanish. Divorced. May never have been married although death cert. says “Mrs.”.
Family story goes that the children were illigitimate.
says born in Teaxs.
-405 N. Taylor Street, Amarillo, Texas-Death
*Aunt Martha says Minnie’s father was Spanish, not Minnie’s mother and they were not Gypsy.
**I’m wondering if she was visiting her grandparents in 1860 and that’s why she’s accossiated with 2 different cesus’. She is with her grandparents 5 Aug 1860 in Macon, AL and then MAYBE back at home with Asbury 9 Sep 1860 in Montgomery. I’m not sure that Edma M and ME are the same person... I am going with the actual birth date listed on her death cert as in 1853 making Catherine Ozier her mother, not Sarah Culbreth. And I believe Marshall & JW are twins if Marhsall is a blood-Hightower. Although...all signs point to Marshall not being a true blood-Hightower unless she is/was illigitimate between a Hightower**
***29 Sept 2014-After talking with AUnt Martha again and Aunt FLo, concensus is that Minnie had the Mexican father, Beatrice & Otis had different father, possibly a Hightower. Also, that Marshall may not have even been Minnie’s biological mother, either.*** [13]
- Spanish. Divorced. May never have been married although death cert. says “Mrs.”.
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