Jerry and Linda Butler

From the research of David Donahue

Near the intersection of state highways 69 and 202 in Decaturville, in the woods behind the antique store, is the grave of Jemima M. Lowry, wife of Robert Lowry. The grave is outside the fence of the later Young family cemetery known as the Houston Cemetery. This, and confusion with another unrelated Robert Lowry who lived near Scotts Hill, lead the compilers of the cemetery book assembled by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1970s to suggest the older cemetery outside the fence was a negro or slave cemetery. This is not correct.

Jemima was the daughter of David Rushing and Nancy Deason. She was born August 15, 1806 and died September 10, 1840. She married Robert Lowry, born January 28, 1806, in the Chesterfield District of SC and died April 22, 1880, in Prentice Co., MS. Robert Lowry was the son of John Paul Lowry (1771-1823) and Temperance J. Rushing (1778-1823). Robert and Jemima came to Tennessee about 1832 with Robert's brother Thomas Jefferson Lowry and Jemima's brother Holden Rushing. The diary of Thomas Lowry describes their journey. They came in a Jersey wagon drawn by one horse. Thomas and Holden walked most of the way. Their journey took them through Buncombe Co., NC; down the French Broad River; to Knoxville, Nashville, then Humphreys Co. (now Benton Co.) where they stayed for a while near relatives before moving to Perry Co. Robert was a merchant in business with his brother in-law Calvin Rushing. Robert moved to Tishomingo Co., MS, between 1840 and 1842 and remarried there.

The above information about children comes from the research of Frances Thomas of Nederland, Texas.