About the year 1826, John Miller, Robert Crittenden, Charles Kelley, and Richard Searcy verbally gave and dedicated this plot of ground to the town of Batesville to be used as a burial place. On April 5, 1856, the cemetery property, then called Cedar Grove, was deeded to the town by Miller, John Ringgold, Jesse Searcy, William B. Searcy, Richard Searcy, Franklin W. and Elizabeth J. Desha, and Edwin R. McGuire.