This cemetery is the final resting place of many early pioneers who settled this area of Alabama and of more than six generations of families from surrounding communities, including county elected officials, mayors of Louisville and Clio, merchants, doctors, lawyers, educators, farmers, share croppers, slaves, and veterans from the Civil War through Desert Storm. Church history indicates that the first burial was the unmarked grave of a child of pioneers Alex and Beggy McRae in the early 1830s. The earliest marked grave is that of Angus Currie (1775-1840) and his wife Catherine Currie (1775-1842), both born in Scotland, who immigrated to Richmond County, North Carolina, and then to this area of Alabama, which became known as "Little Scotland." Founded in 1823, Pea River Presbyterian Church is the oldest Presbyterian church in Southeast Alabama. The cemetery contains a diverse collection of grave emblems, unique monuments, and ornamental ironwork fences, and its land was acquired over the years from Miles McInnis in 1875, C.W.and Julia Capel in 1895, including land for the old school house, the Charlie Jones Estate in 1964, Ollie Tillman in 1966, and John O.and Evelyn Riley in 1976.