This cemetery is the burial site of heroic U.S. Army men, families, and heirs among Seminoles who came mainly from Florida about 1850, lived in northern Mexico or Texas, and in the 1870s joined Lt. John L. Bullis, later a general, and Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie in ridding Texas of hostile Indians; among the many scouts buried here are John Bowlegs, Elijah Daniels, Pompey Factor, Renty Grayson, John Jefferson, Billy July, Sampson July, George Kibbit, Issac Payne, Pompey Perryman, Joseph Phillips, Billie Wilson, Issac Wilson, and Kelina Wilson.