Cross Creek Cemetery, begun in 1785, is the oldest public cemetery in Fayetteville. Soon after Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his army left Fayetteville in March 1865, Mrs. Anne K. Kyle, who had served as a nurse in the hospital there during the Civil War, established the Confederate Burial Ground. She and Fayetteville Mayor Archibald McLean chose a place in the back section of the cemetery overlooking Cross Creek for the soldiers' burial, and the Rev. Joseph C. Huske of St. John's Episcopal Church officiated at a mass burial there later that spring. After the war, Mrs. Kyle and other Fayetteville women raised money for a monument to the Confederate dead by raffling a homemade silk quilt and selling many tickets for a dollar each. Erected in 1868, the monument is the oldest Confederate monument in North Carolina and was made by George Lauder, a Scotland native and the state's most productive nineteenth-century stonecutter, who had worked on the State Capitol in Raleigh and at the Fayetteville Arsenal before opening his own marble yard in Fayetteville in 1845. In the late 1860s, John R. Tolar dedicated another memorial in this section to his father and eight uncles who were killed or disabled during the war. This part of the cemetery also contains many other Civil War veterans, both Southern and Northern.