Green Grove Cemetery officially began in September 1903, when Martin and Minnie Buerkle sold two acres to the Trustees of Green Grove Cemetery Association. It was likely the first burial ground dedicated to Stuttgart’s growing African American population. Arkansas County Courthouse documents establish that two burials occurred before the land sale: Ms. Etta Ellis, born 22 October 1862 and died 19 August 1879, and Ms. Hannah Rayford, born 1864 and died 4 July 1888. It is believed that the Trustees either sold or gave a portion of the land to businessman James Wesley Relerford, founder of Relerford and Son Funeral Home and Stuttgart’s first Black mortician. Death certificates show some interments recorded in Green Grove Cemetery and others in Love Rest Cemetery. James Wesley Relerford is buried in Love Rest Cemetery along with his son and successor, Booker Theodore Relerford, and several members of the Relerford family. The Black community came to call the cemeteries Love Rest Green Grove Cemetery, one cemetery with two locations. Love Rest Cemetery is also the burial place of Mack Skinner, Stuttgart's first Black master plumber and first Black elected school board official. Both Green Grove and Love Rest contain the graves of several members and speakers of the Stuttgart Negro Civic League of the 1960s era, as well as several World War I and World War II veterans. Green Grove is the burial place of Professor Leroy Davis Holman, the educator for whom Holman School is named, and Viet Nam War veteran PFC Robert Lee Ramsey, Jr., U.S.M.C. Over time, the cemetery footprints became obscured and its early history was almost forgotten because of inactivity, and by January 1978 only three plots remained.