The earliest recorded burial on this site was Elizabeth A. Baker, who died on April 26, 1883. Pattie D. Baker, who died in October of that year, was one of several people reported to have been reinterred here from the local school grounds. In 1892, J.H. Mathews sold about an acre including this site to trustees of the Belden Public school for $12.50 for use as a cemetery. In 1895, when the town of Belden was renamed Naples, Belden Cemetery was renamed accordingly. Those interred here include a Texas State Representative and Amanda Sheppard, the mother and grandmother of two U.S. congressmen. Members of the Watts family were reinterred here from the Wheatville graveyard northeast of Naples. Now encompassing two acres, Naples Cemetery is a chronicle of Morris County.