McPherson Cemetery includes notable statues, graves, and burial sections associated with General James B. McPherson, the highest-ranking Union officer to die in the Civil War; the McPherson family graves; Jacob Daggett, a Revolutionary War veteran who died in 1836; Emma Anderson, who died in 1895 and was the mother of author Sherwood Anderson; Captain Charles H. McCleary, a Civil War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient who died in 1906; the National Arborist Association 1776 Tree; George Burton Meek, who died on May 11, 1898, and was the first American killed in the Spanish-American War; PVT. Rodger W. Young, who died on July 31, 1943, was a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, and whose story became the "Ballad of Rodger Young"; and a veterans' burial section and monument.