Written by Scott Harp

Just returned from the 2009 lectureship at Freed-Hardeman University. The FOTR sessions on Monday were outstanding. Many thanks to Terry Gardner, John T. Smithson, Jim Gardner & Richard England for their great contributions. The lectures were very effective and informative. I look forward to Faulkner University's sessions in March. One morning, I ran out to the snap off a few shots of the graves at the Henderson Cemetery again. I had not been aware of Ernest E. Highers, a gospel preacher and the father of Alan Highers, as having been buried there. So while I was there I got the rest of them again.



Here's a tidbit of info. But did you know that in addition to the many talents of N.B. Hardeman as educator and preacher, he also had strong leanings toward engineering. The city of Henderson asked Hardeman to plan the layout for the Henderson City Cemetery. As a token of their appreciation, they give him the choice of plots for which to be buried. The center and highest point is where he is buried.



When "Miss Jo" Hardeman, or "Josie," as he called her, died in 1940, she was first to be laid in the family plot. This is the reason for the brick column at the northwest entrance of the cemetery that has inscribed, "In Memory of Mrs. N.B. Hardeman."