Yesterday my husband Steve and I set out to find Old Highsmith Cemetery here in our part of Texas. To make a long story short, we did locate it. An older couple drove us to to a dirt road about .2 miles east of the New Highsmith Cemetery location. We all got out of the car, and they pointed to a tree north of where we were standing and said, "The cemetery is under that tree. It is in bad shape. Watch out for rattlesnakes." So Steve and I climbed up a hill, crossed the railroad tracks, and proceeded north for a few hundred feet until we encountered two fences. We walked along the fenceline until one fence ended in a gate. My husband climbed over a tree to get over the remaining fence. I crawled on my belly under the barbed wire fence. The gate was unlocked--we carefully trekked through the dense brush towards the tree. We did find about ten different headstones, including ones with the Guttery family name on them. I included a photo of oneof the gravestones to help in understanding how overgrown this cemetery is. Finding this gem of a cemetery was certainly worth the fire ant bites and scratches we're enjoying today. Thank you--Wesley Keats--for providing directions to the general area. -- Julie Horrocks Buda, TX