Fred Ede platted Eden in 1882 and set this land aside for a cemetery. Though older burials may be present, the earliest known tombstone marks the grave of the five-week-old infant son of Frederick and Susan (Reynolds) Shutt, buried in 1882. Several graves for children and infants testify to the harsh conditions of pioneer life, and adults also faced danger and hardship. John Emmett Molloy and Charles Edward Waring were both killed in accidents with horses, and according to oral history a woman named Carson was killed by a runaway horse in 1887 and buried in an unmarked grave. Of an estimated 33 or 34 burials believed to have taken place here, only fifteen tombstones remained standing at the dawn of the 21st century, yet the cemetery continues as a chronicle of Eden’s history.