James Miller Ingram served as a captain in the Confederate 6th Provisional Cavalry Partisan Rangers. Years after the war, he became a self-taught minister, and when he went to preach at a church he was murdered, shot in the back by 19-year-old John M. Stone. During the Civil War, John Dudley Stone, John M. Stone's father, was a Union soldier killed by Ingram in retaliation for Stone having killed some Confederate soldiers in a cave along the White River. John M. Stone witnessed his father's wartime killing and vowed revenge against Ingram. The cemetery is thought to be on land originally owned by Nelson Reed Graham and his wife, Susan Louisa Landers, and scientific evidence indicates nine graves. Others thought to be buried there are Francis Marion Easley, Eliza Jane Easley, a Landers male, a Negro slave, and an unknown man of Quantrill.