Hightower Family Cemetery
aka Cotton Creek
Walker County, Texas
GPS Coords: 30.64138, -95.58069
Keep in mind that Sunset Lake Road is actually a circle. From I-45 in Huntsville, head southwest on Montgomery Rd for about 2.9 miles, which becomes Possum Walk Rd for .5 mile. Turn left onto Sunset Lake Rd for .3 mile then turn right for 1/2 mile. Turn right onto Cotton Creek Cemetery Rd for .4 mile and make a sharp right and then a sharp left - cemetery will be on the left in about 300 feet.
There are two Hightower cemeteries and they're not far from each other.
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes/Inscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnnie Belle Kelley Archie | 27 Oct 1922 | 20 Jan 1985 | |
| Walter Auterine Bass | 9 Jun 1932 | 7 Jun 1983 | |
| Maggie Hightower Bradford | 5 Mar 1872 | 3 Aug 1938 | |
| Raymond B Brooks | 10 Nov 1908 | 8 May 1971 | |
| Kintz Curtis | 23 Feb 1894 | 16 Jul 1982 | |
| Nettie Curtis Ennis | 16 Jul 1903 | 21 May 1945 | |
| Daisy Frazier | 14 Sep 1881 | 27 Apr 1967 | |
| Bobby Lynn Glaze | 8 Sep 1953 | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| Jimmy Earl Glaze | 27 Apr 1957 | 3 Jun 1957 | |
| Walter H. Glaze | 11 Mar 1909 | 23 Oct 2011 | |
| Jenkins Harris | 22 Aug 1904 | 19 Sep 1981 | |
| Onnie Mae Sowells Harris | 21 May 1909 | 18 Apr 1989 | |
| Wilbert Harris | 15 Oct 1929 | 28 Oct 1931 | |
| Agnes Bibbs Hightower | 10 Sep 1876 | 14 Feb 1949 | |
| Annie Cotton Hightower | 2 Jan 1842 | 5 May 1918 | |
| Gibbs Hightower II | 6 Jan 1915 | 3 Apr 2010 | |
| Jim Hightower | 27 Jun 1866 | 18 Oct 1954 | |
| John "Tip" Hightower | 16 Apr 1843 | 21 Jul 1929 | |
| Joseph "Sambo" Hightower | 14 Oct 1925 | 1 Jun 1991 | |
| Laura Hightower | 1864 | unknown | |
| Lelia Mae Hightower | 19 Feb 1931 | 14 Sep 2020 | |
| Lewis Uncle Lew Hightower | 28 Feb 1878 | 1 Feb 1966 | |
| Onnie Bea Hightower | 26 Jan 1951 | 21 Jun 2003 | |
| Robert B. "Uncle Rob" Hightower | 23 Feb 1885 | 15 Jan 1989 | |
| Rosie Nash Hightower | 12 Jan 1862 | 5 May 1913 | |
| Ulyessus Hightower | 25 Oct 1904 | 3 Nov 1976 | |
| Carrie Lee Walker Hillsman | 30 Sep 1936 | 13 Jan 1982 | |
| John Johnson Jr. | 1 Jul 1929 | 15 Nov 1975 | |
| Richard Johnson | 10 Mar 1882 | 5 Jan 1958 | |
| Dowling Kelley | 27 May 1917 | 27 Jan 1972 | |
| Lillian Houston Kelley | 1 Aug 1917 | 28 Feb 1992 | |
| Willie Lola Hightower Kelley | 4 May 1895 | 5 May 1990 | |
| Lena Hightower King | 19 Jun 1884 | 24 Aug 1964 | |
| Deborah Lee Massie | 19 Sep 1954 | 14 Mar 2019 | |
| Tiffany Massie | 16 Jul 1973 | 20 Jul 1978 | |
| Bessie Lee McGowan | 16 Mar 1900 | 21 Sep 1926 | |
| Charles Goree McGowan | 8 Mar 1901 | 15 Dec 1982 | |
| Robert Mills | 1 Jun 1910 | 24 Dec 1955 | |
| Kara Alexandria Perkins | 7 Jan 1982 | 9 Jan 1995 | |
| Lizzie Hightower Royal | 1 Sep 1873 | 23 Apr 1962 | |
| Horace Smith | 2 Aug 1905 | 2 Jan 1956 | |
| Jack Morris Smith | 2 Aug 1905 | 16 Jan 1985 | |
| Jeffery S. Smith | 29 Sep 1972 | 20 Jan 1973 | |
| Alton Olsen Smither | 8 Mar 1930 | 2 Jan 1984 | |
| Bertha Curtis Smither | 5 Nov 1895 | 10 Jun 1977 | |
| Luster I Smither | 4 Aug 1922 | 14 Sep 1982 | |
| Sam Vince Smither | 27 Aug 1894 | 19 Mar 1951 | |
| Bessie Sowells | 16 Mar 1900 | 21 Sep 1926 | |
| Ellen Deloris "Mama Dee" Randle Sowells | 1880 | 1948 | |
| Joe Sowells | 17 Feb 1880 | 18 Jul 1962 | |
| Joe J Sowells Jr. | 27 Jul 1902 | 11 Mar 1977 | |
| Thomas Sowells | 1904 | 1943 | |
| Earnest W. Teamer Sr. | 24 Jan 1917 | 19 Jan 1991 | |
| Ezzell Smither Thomas | 22 Feb 1915 | 19 Aug 2014 | |
| Green Utley | 8 Aug 1898 | 21 Dec 1959 | |
| Beley Walker | 19 Mar 1925 | 1 Aug 1977 | |
| Tommy Lee Walker | 30 Jul 1921 | 18 Jan 1980 | |
| Barry Joel Williams | 28 Aug 1953 | 17 Aug 2011 | |
| Bernice Grace Williams | 28 Aug 1929 | 25 Apr 2012 | |
| Cecil Williams | 4 Jul 1927 | 11 Jul 2007 | |
| Lusters H Williams | 5 Dec 1900 | 18 Feb 1966 | |
| Maggie Lee Sowells Williams | 11 Nov 1906 | 14 Oct 1990 | |
| Horace York Jr. | 1 Jun 1936 | 16 Apr 1976 |