The LaCygne Weekly Journal Linn County Friday January 13, 1899 Mrs. Mary Hightower. On Tuesday at 12:15 o'clock a.m. the spirit of Mrs. Mary HIGHTOWER departed this life. This death had been expected for some time as the deceased had been a constant sufferer from consumption for several years. Mary DAVIS was born in Schuyler county, Illinois in 1858. She was left an orphan in 1859, and at the earnest request of her mother, previous to her death, Mary was taken into the family of that good old gentleman, Rev. Sam'l HYMER. In 1866 they came to Kansas when she was adopted according to the laws of the state. The deceased was twice married, first in 1878 to S.W. NICHOLS and ten years later to J.C. HIGHTOWER, who with her two daughters, Ida Mabel NICHOLS and Anna HIGHTOWER, and two step-daughters, Tillie and Mary still survive here. Her early religious training led her to unite with the M.E. church in her fifteenth year, since that time she had been a faithful and exemplary Christian. The funeral services were held at the M.E. church in LaCygne on Wednesday by Rev. WOOD, after which the remains were taken to Rockville for burial.