Glenfawn Cemetery was begun after the death of Julien Sidney Devereux (1805-56), with the remains of his father, John W. Devereux (1769-1847), and an infant son reinterred soon after. Called Devereux and Sand Field, the plot served the nearby Forest Hill community, one mile north, the site of an academy founded by Devereux in 1850. The name was changed to Glenfawn in 1872 when a post office opened with Charles Nunnally as postmaster. The settlement had several stores, two blacksmiths, a school, a church, and a Masonic lodge building, and the Old Methodist-Baptist Church was located east of the cemetery.