Oral tradition says this cemetery began as a slave cemetery on the plantation of Tennessee native Churchill Fulshear. Many early burials are unmarked, and the oldest headstone is that of Rebecca Scott in 1915. Those buried here include midwives, a chef, a horse trainer and cowboy, founders of the first colored school house, businessmen and women, two local entrepreneurs, religious leaders, and veterans from World War I to the Vietnam War. A rural landscape of rolling hills and trees surrounds a variety of headstones made of fieldstone, granite, marble, steel, homemade concrete, wood, and resin. The cemetery is evidence of the rich heritage of the people in this area.