Rose Hill Cemetery began in October 1890, three months after Swisher County was organized and Tulia was named county seat. The first recorded burial was 18-year-old Louis H. Harral, who died on October 17, 1890, and whose parents, L. J. and N. J. Harral, obtained permission from landowner T. W. Adams to bury him on a hillside south of the Middle Tule Creek. Twelve days later, 4-year-old Robert Alonzo Hutchinson, son of W.B. and Virginia Hutchinson, was buried on the hill near Louis. In 1906, five acres surrounding the graves were officially set aside for a community cemetery. A cemetery association was formed in 1916 under the leadership of Lula B. Tomlinson, who named it Rose Hill, and the association was officially chartered by the state in 1937 and continues to maintain the site. Those buried there include numerous city and county elected officials, two law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, John Mosley, who died in 1933, and Robert Bob Potter, who died on Christmas Day, 1960, as well as veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.