Eller Hightower, son of Alford Milam and Sarah Alvena Mounce Hightower, daughter of Otis Smith and Nancy Margaret Trammell Mounce, son of William Nathan and Mary Broom Mounce, daughter of William and Amy Broom. William and Mary Broom Mounce left South Carolina around 1837 and settled in Troup County, Georgia and in the early 1840s moved to Tallapoosa County, Alabama and finally settled at Cotton Valley , Macon County, Alabama in the mid to late 1840s.
Cotton Valley is located south of Tuskegee.
William and Mary are buried in the Fort Davis Cemetary near Cotton Valley located east of Hwy 29 about 200 yards on County Road 45. Both tombstones are in fairly good condition. Three of their grandchildren are buried near them. Virgil A. S. Mounce b. 1906 AL married Mary M. Cofield b.