Cedar Hill Cemetery

Cedar Hill Cemetery. . , In November 1868, after the official records of Jackson County were relocated from Bellefonte to the new seat of government in Scottsboro, a campaign was begun for a new municipal cemetery here. Around 1876, Charlotte Scott Skelton. daughter of Scottsboro's founder. Robert T. Scott, donated the land for this cemetery. Owing to the reinternment of other cemeteries to this site because of land development projects, many markers in Cedar Hill predate its establishment. Some of Scottsboro's prominent African American residents are buried in the north section of the cemetery., On February 21, 1878. James Armstrong, editor of the Scottsboro Citizen newspaper, reported: "The Scottsboro Cemetery, where only six people have been interred, is a lovely spot, and, if improved and adorned with flowers, would be a most beautiful burial ground. The cemetery is on an elevated but gently sloped hillside in the southwestern part of town. Though set apart by town authorities as sacred to the burial of our dead, the site is nameless as yet.", In a letter to the Scottsboro Citizen in 1908, Evie Brown Robinson suggested calling the unnamed cemetery Cedar Hill. The site is the final resting place for soldiers, politicians, novelists, celebrities, teachers, and others who in life contributed greatly to their community and the broader world.