When James D Hightower was born on 27 January 1863, in Chester, Chester, South Carolina, United States, his father, Burvel Milton Hightower, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Caroline Whitted, was 28. He married Margaret Hightower on 14 November 1883, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Saluda Township, Greenville, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 29 December 1890, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Moulton, Lawrence, Alabama, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
English: perhaps an altered form of Hayter (see Hight ).
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