The original four-acre section of Live Oak Cemetery included land donated by James M. Turley (1856-83) and Andrew Jackson Hammett (1829-1907). The oldest grave is that of Turley's daughter, Tennessee Belle Hart, and her baby, who died on Aug. 27, 1874. A community church, erected near the burial ground in 1874, also housed a school from 1877 to about 1886. Pioneers in the area gathered each summer for a 10-day camp meeting under an adjacent brush arbor. The cemetery was enlarged in 1948, when Herman Heep gave an additional 11.06 acres, and the site contains about 1600 graves.