This was the home place of John Anderson Salmon, born in North Carolina on Aug. 25, 1822, and died on Aug. 28, 1864, and his wife Mary Ann Tutor, born in North Carolina on April 21, 1831, and died on Jan. 12, 1915. John Anderson Salmon was the first person buried on this ground. His wife, some of his children, and many of his descendants also rest here. Their children were Catherine Loretta Salmon, Henrietta Salmon, Sibitha Salmon, Pernetta A. Salmon, Silas A. Salmon, James Andrew Salmon, Aresta Salmon, and John Henry Salmon, born between 1850 and 1863 in North Carolina and Mississippi, with later deaths in Mississippi and Texas.