Clark Cemetery served members of the Clark family, many of whom lived in the now-vanished Chocolate Community near Chocolate Creek. That settlement began after Sylvanus Hatch bought property near the creek, and in 1846 Sylvanus, his brother Joseph, and their families settled there. Residents raised cattle and horses and farmed the land, and many worshipped at St. Paul’s-on-the-Prairie, an Episcopal church whose building also housed the community school for a time. Chocolate later declined, and by 1936 the school and church had closed. In the mid-1850s, John Clark and his extended family settled in the area. He donated property and built stock pens known as Clark’s Station along the Indianola Railroad so local residents could ship crops and livestock to market. In 1899 he deeded this property for use as a burial ground. The earliest known burial is William Clark, who died in 1875 and was a son of Daniel Clark, one of John Clark’s brothers. Also buried there is Thomas Clark, another of John’s brothers, who served the Confederacy during the Civil War. Features of the cemetery include curbing, Masonic gravestones, vertical stones, and obelisks, and additional property was donated in 1941. Descendants of those buried there have cared for it over the years, and it remains the last surviving vestige of the Chocolate Community and a record of a pioneering area family.