Founded before 1850 at the same time as the original church near Fryer's Bridge, the cemetery served a community that became the village of Linwood in the late 1850s. The original cemetery included the graves of both black and white parishioners of the early church. In the 1870s, black communicants established their own congregation and cemetery, while the remaining white congregation continued to use the original cemetery. The earliest marked grave site dates to 1858, and some headstones identify Confederate soldiers.