Commerce Township's first burial ground was laid out on the Bela Armstrong farm, then owned by his widow, in 1834, and most of the burials were relocated to this site in 1837 when the Baptist Church of Commerce platted the Baptist Burying Ground here. Although managed by the Baptists, the cemetery was nondenominational. Those buried here include important Commerce pioneers such as Reuben Wright, the first permanent white settler; Joseph G. Farr and Amasa Andrews, who platted the village in 1835; and George C. Hungerford, who established a stagecoach route from Pontiac to Milford in 1851. Veterans of major military conflicts, including the Civil War, World War I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, are also buried here. The cemetery is an excellent example of a pioneer cemetery and displays a remarkable variety of monuments and headstones, with grave markers reflecting nineteenth century funerary motifs including willow trees, praying hands, urns, foliage, lambs, grapes, drapery, doves, crosses, and clasped hands. Distinctive White Bronze (zinc) monuments mark the graves of Seymour and Mary McWhorter and John and Mary McGowan. A 1990 survey of plantings revealed twenty-four varieties of trees and shrubs that add to the park-like setting. Platted by the Baptists in 1837, the cemetery was transferred to the Commerce Township Cemetery Association in 1921, and the township took ownership of the property in 1950.