A child of a man named Grimes was the first one buried here. The next burial was of Mrs. Griffin, who died at a campmeeting service. It is said that there are no preachers buried here. A man named Cross, who was surly and irritable, it is related, was buried cross-wise, because he was cross by name, nature and practice. This graveyard is unfenced and in a dilapidated condition.
Stock runs over it and school children play with part of the tablets.
Some of the lots are overgrown with weeds and briars. Some of the enclosures are torn down, many graves are unmarked. Some graves are covered with long flat slabs, which have the inscriptions engraved thereon. Many inscriptions have been effaced by the elements. The name of the disease that caused death , with the length of illness, is stated on some of the Tombstones.