Swisher County Texas Archives Photo Place.....Rose Hill Cemetery, Texas Historical Commission Marker May 21, 2005
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Texas Historical Commission

Rose Hill Cemetery

The history of this community cemetery dates to October 1890, just three 
months after Swisher County was organized and Tulia was named county seat. The 
first recorded burial here is that of 18-year-old Louis H. Harral, who died on 
October 17, 1890. His parents, L.J. and N.J. Harral obtained permission from 
landowner T.W. Adams to bury their son on this hillside south of the Middle 
Tule Creek. Twelve days later, 4-year-old Robert Alonzo Hutchinson, Son of 
W.B. and Virginia Hutchinson died and was buried on the hill newr Louis. In 
1906 five acres of land surrounding the graves were officially set aside for a 
community cemetery.

A cemetery association was formed in 1916 under the leadership of Lula B. 
Tomlinson, who named the cemetery Rose Hill. The association was officially 
chartered by the state in 1937, and continues to maintain the site.

Among those interred here are numerous city and county elected officials, 
including two law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty: John Mosley 
(d. 1933) and Robert (Bob) Potter (d. Christmas Day, 1960). Also buried here 
are veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World 
War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

(1994)

Additional Comments:
Located on the East side of the cemetery near the flag pole.

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