Nearby settlers used this site as a burial ground before members of the Daughtrey family, early area ranchers, formally deeded these three acres for cemetery use on December 4, 1906. The oldest marked grave is that of infant Madge S. McCargo, who lived from 1897 to 1898 and was the granddaughter of pioneer Baptist minister George W. Scarborough and his wife Martha, who settled on this land in 1877. Descendants later erected a fence in the 1950s and a flagpole in 1998 out of respect for the pioneers, veterans, and citizens buried here, and the gravestones preserve a chronicle of the heritage of Jones County.