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Swisher Co, Cemeteries of Texas
For inscriptions see: * Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Location:
From Tulia, follow east service road of US 87 south about one
mile to cemetery.
Historical Marker: 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. & 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. & Virginia
Hutchinson, died and was buried on the hill near 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)