The route I took to this cemetery is probably the longest route, as I had permission from the neighboring hunting club to go through their land.  There is a gate off of a main road that would provide a shorter distance.

From Interstate 95, turn west onto Hwy. 17/Hwy. 82 and go .5 miles and turn left (south) at traffic light onto Hwy. 17 South going towards Woodbine.  At 1 mile, turn right (west) onto Buck Swamp Road, about 2.7 miles down, the road will turn to dirt, at 3.9 miles you will see the sign for the Higginbotham Cemetery on your right.  Go through the hunting club gate about 1 mile and you will come to a fork in the road, take the left.  At .4 miles you will turn right and go .7 miles and you will make a slight turn to the right through another gate and the cemetery will be in front of you.  A small street sign a little ways down names this road Oak Street.

This is a beautiful cemetery nestled beneath tall, cumbersome oaks.  Unfortunately it is not receiving the care it should.  Many graves are completely overgrown with vines, weeds, bushes, and saplings.  Some bushes were planted around the cleaner gravesites, but this too, is a bad decision, as no one has taken the time to keep these azaleas from taking over the gravesites.  They should be removed.

I believe this to be an old slave cemetery, as it has the characteristics of an old plantation site, and there are numerous graves that are not marked, but have started to sink.  There could be at least 100 or more sites.

Also, there was no easy way to transcribe this cemetery as the grave sites were haphazardly placed.  What I have done is grouped them and drawn an imaginary line down the middle of the cemetery.  There were about 4 groups on the left, if you are facing the cemetery, and two on the right.  This does not include the numerous sites in between that were not marked.  There is a whole row along the back of the cemetery of gravesites with no markings.

Transcribed 13 March 2004 by Amy Hedrick.

On 20 March 2004, I went back out to this cemetery, as I deleted some photos by accident, and found another group of graves.  This group could be included in group 3, but I have made it group 4 instead, as I only found one slab.

This cemetery would be a great candidate for in depth surveying.

Only two marked graves in this group, however they were on the back row that had many more unmarked sites.  A bit down from these two graves was one that was fenced off and overgrown.

At the very front of the cemetery were about 6 visible gravesites.  Two had concrete slabs, and the other 4 were sunken spots, characteristic of a gravesite.

This is the most well cared for group in the cemetery.  It also has the run away azaleas that need to be removed before they create bigger problems.  Number 1 is the first row/grave.  Numbers 2-6 form the second row.  Numbers 7-11 form the third row, and numbers 12-15 form the fourth row.

This is a small group, in very poor shape.  There may be more gravesites, too hard to tell with the growth.  Numbers 1-3 form the first row and numbers 4-6 form the second row.

This group was in good shape, a lot of overgrowth.  One slab has collapsed into the grave, which leads me to believe that it may have been a marble marker.  Another was completely surrounded by bushes.  Numbers 1-5 form the first row, 2-7 form the second, and number 8 is all by itself.  This group, too, may have many more gravesites.