This cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Fannin County. It was originally surrounded by a church and school was the center of picnics and singings. Many of the first settlers of the area from the early 1850's are buried here. Those families include Routh, Vestal Brown, Scott, Robinson, Cooper, Banton and the Welch, Aldridge and Chadwell families who former "First Lady" Laura Bush decends from. It is the final resting place of many Confederate soldiers including Daniel Brown, E.J., M.H. and J.L. Blanton, John Bowen, Calvin Cooper, Joseph Melugin, William Robinson, Jonathan Routh, Thomas Lynch, John Aldridge, J.o. McFarland and Pharoah Medlin.