Old Mounds Cemetery served residents of the original site of the community of Medicine Mound in southeast Hardeman County. The settlement took its name from mounds that rise abruptly from the otherwise flat topography of the county; one mound contained springs, herbs and gypsum believed to have medicinal properties. Established by the late 1800s, the community consisted of Gobins' General Merchandise Store, a school and a church, and the cemetery stood beside the one-room building used as both a schoolhouse and sanctuary. Most early residents farmed or ranched, and little is known about the early pioneers buried here. Approximately nine burials are believed to have taken place in the community's early history. Only one original gravestone, dated 1891, survives, marking the burials of two infants, Smoot and Ford Kerley, children of settlers J.C. and Ida Kerley. Other known burials are of residents of Mexican descent. In 1908, the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway laid track two and a half miles north of here, and residents moved near the railroad, after which the earlier community became known as Old Mounds. In 1919, the school also relocated, and soon the old settlement was entirely abandoned, along with the cemetery. Today this burial ground is all that remains of Old Mounds, reflecting the pioneering farmers and ranchers of the area and the Hispanic families who lived and worked here.