Although this cemetery was located on the Carver farm, many people from the surrounding area are buried here. The fact that relatives, neighbors and people from the surrounding area were placed side by side gives us an idea of the closeness of the early settlers and their dependence on each other.

Among those buried here are Moses and Susan Carver. George Washington Carver was buried at his beloved Tuskegee after his death January 5,1943.

The rock wall surrounding the cemetery duplicates the one built by Moses Carver. The rocks were taken out of the fields where he intended to raise crops, and hauled to this site by wagon. The wall was built to protect the graves from the livestock. Stones were placed, one on top of the other, without mortar, to form the wall.