The first burial in Hartland Burying Ground occurred in 1840 with the death of Hartland Township pioneer Thomas Hall. In 1842, Chauncey L. and Robert C. Crouse, who platted the village of Hartland, later transferred approximately two acres of the original cemetery to the Hartland Township Board of Health in 1864. The cemetery contains the graves of several early settlers, including Samuel Mapes and Dr. Josiah T. Clark, who ministered to people suffering from smallpox during the late 1840s, as well as prominent Hartland citizens including the Crouses and members of the Tremaine family, both known as successful entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Occupying 3.6 acres, the cemetery features a wide variety of funerary markers popular during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including pedestal tombs with urns such as the Blain marker, a pulpit marker with an open bible such as the Bradley marker, a marker sculpted as a tree with ferns at its base, obelisks such as the one for the Crouse family, and a cobblestone cross bearing the name Abraham carved into hearts that dates from 1970. Three hundred nineteen graves date from the nineteenth century, and those interred here include six veterans of the War of 1812 and twenty-four Civil War veterans.