Old Elam Baptist Church Cemetery in Montgomery County is the county's twenty-second cemetery listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register. Rev. James McLemore, Electious Thompson, Arnold Edwards, and E. Jeter founded Old Elam Baptist Church on June 19, 1819. Although founded by a white congregation, for its first 46 years the church and cemetery were integrated. In 1865, the deed for the church and ten acres including the cemetery passed to the church's African American members. The oldest graves date to June 17, 1820. One grave belongs to a person born in South Africa in 1817 who was brought to America as a slave in 1823 and remained here until her death. The cemetery holds the earthly remains of early settlers, slaves, sharecroppers, American and Confederate soldiers, educators, preachers, and successful businessmen and women. The Alabama Historical Commission listed the cemetery in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register on March 19, 2013.