Located in extreme southeast Henderson County, literally astride the boundary line of Henderson and Decatur counties. About 4.5 miles south Scotts Hill, Tennessee via the Scotts Hill, Goff and Presley Ridge Roads. Situated on the north side of Presley Ridge Road about .2 mile east of its juncture with Goff Road. This was the burial ground of Dr. Robert Lowery and his black servants and some of their descendants. Dr. Lowery lived in Henderson County, in the old thirteenth civil district. He was unmarried.

Mr. Gordon H. Turner, Sr. wrote of Dr. Lowery in THE HISTORY OF SCOTTS HILL, TN, 1977), page 117, that he was a graduate of the University of South Carolina, 1831; "By 1860 he is shown with 30 slaves some of whom, if reports are true, were his own children by slave girls. . . . He was preeminently a slave-holder and farmer. . . . When I was a lad, however, the oldest citizens here said he was known for his stern mastery and ruled by brute force when any slave got out of hand."

Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Henderson County, Tennessee
Compiled by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith / Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1995

Note: The earliest death date inscribed on any old-time tombstone for a black in Henderson County, that of Rosie, who died May 1856, is located in this cemetery.

Auburn Powers' HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE (1930), pages 43-45 has much about Dr. Robert Lowery that he learned from Hoad Lowery, one of the doctor's former slaves. States that ANTNEY, a slave man, was shot and killed by the doctor and buried in Lowery Cemetery. Apparently the doctor was of a vicious temperament whatever good traits he may otherwise have had.

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From the intersection of Liberty Rd. & TN-114, south of Scotts Hill, travel south on Liberty Rd. for 4.1 mi.; turning west (right) onto Willie Holland Rd., going 1.3 mi to the cemetery on the north (right) side of the road, about 100 feet into the woods.