This cemetery served as Fort Supply's second burial ground from 1873 to 1895. Although many soldiers and civilians were buried there, the soldiers were moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1895 after the post was abandoned. Some civilian graves are unmarked, but headstones remain for Toch-e-me-ha, a Cheyenne and wife of Ben Clark, a scout, who died October 6th, 1875, at age 22; Alex Mitchell, who died June 17, 1877, at age 22; James Quinlan, who died July 12, 1877, at age 32 years 6 months; Pat McLoughlin, born in County Roscommon, Ireland, who died March 17, 1878, at age 36; and Pvt. Bad Face, an Indian Scout, who died November 7, 1885, of chronic dysentery. From 1895 to 1908, after military operations at Fort Supply moved to Fort Sill, civilians occupied the post's dwellings and grounds, and many had taken part in the 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Run; the earliest burial of this period was in 1901. From 1908 to 1982, after the state of Oklahoma acquired the property, the cemetery became the burial place for many mentally ill patients from Western Oklahoma Hospital, and in 1982 Dr. William Blythe, M.D., a former hospital superintendent, was the last person buried there.