The Highers Cemetery is located South of Rock City on Rawls Creek and
then left on Lester Lane to the end of the road. Buried here are:
Waggoner, Dau age 2 yrs. 3 mo d. 22 Oct 1893 d/o W.B.
Tyree, Ferry A 19 Sept 1875 -- 16 Nov 1898 d/o W.H. & C.
Tyree, W.S. 4 Apr 1880 -- 22 Aug 1917
Tyree, Catharine 17 May 1838 -- 15 Aug 1918)
Tyree, W.H. 1 Dec 1827 -- 22 Apr 1886 )
Tyree, Mary J. 27 May 1871 -- 9 Mar 1878 d/o W.H. & C.
Highers, Janie B. 27 Apr 1873 -- 16 Dec 1882
Apple, Bettie 4 Apr 1885-- 22 June 1901
Highers, Willie 14 March 1884 -- 7 Sept 1898
Highers, Simon 26 Apr 1844 -- 8 June 1920
Highers, Jacob 8 Mar 1828 -- 17 Sep 1905 )
Highers, Ellen Wilson 15 Apr 1836 -- 26 Feb 1903)
Warman, John Bell 18 Oct 1880-- 16 Apr 1894 s/o T.M. & P.A.
Highers, Henry N. 18 Jan 1833 -- 30 Dec 1902
Highers, Mary J. 23 May 1847 -- 29 Dc 1907
Several fieldstones.
(Names and dates from Smith County Cemeteries-South of the Cumberland
River.)