Roberts Graveyard #2 (FAG name)
Local Name is Roberts Cemetery at Hickey

The Find-A-Grave link above will take you to their website for Roberts Graveyard #2. It is fairly accurate and up to date but does have a few errors. The cemetery is still active but burials are fairly rare. There are 48 graves in the cemetery with tombstones. Thirty-two of these 48 graves have tombstones that are engraved. The other 16 are slate or limestone rocks, or even a few concrete blocks.

The oldest grave with an engraved tombstone is for John Harrison Roberts who was ambushed and killed on Mine Lick Creek in 1870. The cemetery is called the John Roberts Cemetery by some. John's family wanted to bury John on the Tucker Ridge in Silver Point but since John was a Union soldier there was strong sentiment against burial in that location. Supposedly the family had to slip at night and bury John in this location. After the fall elections in 1869 Tennessee fulfilled the fundamental requirements to be readmitted to the Union. Therefore, political control switched from Unionists to Confederate. The year of 1870 was a very turbulent year as the Confederates sought to reassert their sentiments onto the population.

There are three Civil War soldiers buried here. All fought for the Union. They are: John Harrison Roberts, Mansfield Smith, and John Wesley Lee. John Wesley Lee was a brother-in-law to John Harrison Roberts having married his sister, Violet Roberts.

This cemetery is on Carr's Chapel Road in Hickey. Right by the road on the right about a mile or so out.

Mike Herd is the volunteer who maintains this cemetery. I'm sure he would welcome other volunteers to help.