Hightower Cemetery, Polk Co GA. Submitted by Lisa Akins BilLisaAkins@juno.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** HIGHTOWER CEMETERY HIGHTOWER MOUTAIN RD, CEDARTOWN, GA. ROAD: TAKING 278 TO THE SOUTH CITY OF CEDARTOWN, BEAR RIGHT ONTO CASON RD, TRAVEL UNTIL YOU COME TO ANTIOCH BAPTlST CHURCH, TURN LEFT ON HIGHTOWER MOUNTAIN ROAD AND GO ABOUT 1 MILE. THERE IS A TWO STORY WHITE WOOD HOME ON THE LEFT WITH PASTURES & BARN BESIDE THE HOME. THE HOME IS THE FORMER HIGHTOWER HOME. THE CEMETERY IS SOME DISTANCE BEHINO THE HOME ON A LITTLE SLOPE. CEMTERY IS FENCED IN, BUT THE MARKERS ARE BROKEN & FALLING OVER. ALSO LOCATEO SEVERAL MILES FURTHER SOUTH OF THI8 HOME 18 THERUINS Of THE ONE TIME HIGHTOWER MILLS ANO THE FALLS, WHICH WAS OWNED BY ELIAS HIGHTOWER. A GRIST MILL WHERE CORN AND GRAIN WERE GROUND ON THE LOWER FLOOR AND ON THE UPPER FLOOR WAS A WOOLEN MILL. H M ANDERSON NOVEMBER 1,1854 - JANUARY 9,1907 MARTHA S BULLOCK OCTOBER 22,1880 - JUNE 22, 1881 DAUGHTER OF A.C. AND A..M. ANDERSON (SLATE MARKER--ANOTHER ONE SAME S1ZE STANDING BUT NOTHING ON IT, SMALL FOOT STONE AT THE FOOT OF IT WITH M.S.B.; WOOOEN FENCE AROUNO IT WAS DOWN.) ALBERT A BULLOCK INFANT DIED OF ? --------18----- - ------18------ E C CARTER JULY 1,1837 - OCTOBER 9,1906 MATTIE A. CARTER JUNE 5, 1841 -FEBRUARY 9, 1910 JOHN THOMAS JEFFERSON, SON OF E.C. AND MARTHA A. CARTER FEB 17,1863 - JAN 2, 1882 E.D., SON OF E.C. & M.A. CARTER JULY 17, l860 - SEPTEMBER 13,1891 DANIEL N.. SON OF E.C. & M.A. CARTER JANUARY 24,1868 - FEBRUARY 10,1892 LILLIE GREEN CARTER AUGUST 8,1878 - NOVEMBER 25.1929 EDWARD ROLLIE CARTER JULY 23,1865 - OCTOBER 22,1950 WILLIAM F. DARDEN (MASON) MARCH 17 1817 - JUNE 25, 1884 W.H., SON Of H.M. ANO BELL GRESHAM OCTOBER 15,1882 - OCTOBER 10,1891 LIZZIE BELL, DAUGHTER OF H.M. ANO BELL GRESHAM APRIL 14,1884 - JANUARY 16,1886 HATTIE S. FLANEGAN JANUARY 25,1847 -SEPTEMBER 18, 1882 ( DAUGHTER OF B F & M E WRIGHT) EMERY A. FLANEGAN JULY 2, 1866 - SEPTEMBER 18, 1866 GONE TO DWELL WITH THE HAPPY AND THE BLEST ( IN SAME LOT AS HATTIE, SHE WAS HIS MOTHER) ELIAS D HIGHTOWER SEPTEMBER 13,1808 - MAY 4, 1892 MARY A, WIFE OF E D HIGHTOWER NOVEMBER 17, 1813 - JULY 10 1887 ELIAS G.,SON OF E.D. AND M.A. HIGHTOWER NOVEMBER 1,1850 - AUGUST 15,1852 ARCHIE J., SON Of T.M. & L.E. HIGHTOWER AUGUST 10,1867 - AUGUST 28. 1873 GRAFER? STEPHENSON OCTOBER 24,1895 - OCTOBER 24,1895 INA STEPHENSON JANUARY 27, 1897 - FEBRUARY 3, 1897 THIS WAS A DOUBLE STONE AND THE STONE WAS BROKEN, GRAFER 1S DOUBTFUL AS TO THE SPELLING Of THE FIRST NAME. B.F. WRIGHT SEPTEMBER 16, 1820 - MAY 12, 1880 (BEDNEGO F or ABEDNEGO F) MARY E. JENKINS, WIFE OF B.F. WRIGHT NOVEMBER .5, 1822 - MAY 9,18 I VISIT THE CEMETERY THIS PAST SUMMER OF 2000, IT IS IN VERY BAD SHAPE, I WILL ALSO SEND PICTURES, SOME OF THE TOMBSTONES LISTED HERE ARE NO LONGER READABLE, I COMBINED THE 1972 LIST FROM THE POLK COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK (AVAILABLE IN THE POLK & FLOYD COUNTY LIBRARY IN GA) THERE WERE LOTS OF ERRORS IN THE DATES. RECORDED BY LISA AKINS.