Wiley Fore and his family came to this area from Alabama in 1883 after the Baker community had been started two years earlier by his nephew, Robert Baker, and his family. Soon after arriving, Fore organized the Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the local chapter of the Grange. In 1884 he donated a one-acre plot of land for use as a free community cemetery, known as the Fore Graveyard. The first burials there were two children of the De Luna family in 1884. In the 1950s, the Fore Cemetery Association was formed to maintain the graveyard.