The oldest readable gravestone in this burial ground bears the date 1870, four years before the founding of Indian Creek Baptist Church. Worship services were first held in a schoolhouse 1/4 mile south of this site. Doc Holcomb donated this property adjacent to the cemetery, and a church building was completed in 1882 using lumber hauled by wagon from Jefferson. For over a century the burial ground was under the direct care of the congregation. An annual cemetery decoration day began in 1900.