Some of the oldest marked graves date back to the era of the American Civil War, but most are 20th-century interments.

Two other early graves are those of Sarah Emily Pennell on September 13, 1843, and Samuel B. Harper on October 12, 1859.

[2] In 1854, the cemetery owners, Colonel and Mrs. John Langdon Lewis, deeded the property to the city of Minden.

[4] In 1864, the bodies of twenty-one Confederate soldiers who died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Mansfield were buried in unmarked graves in the cemetery.

The event features citizens dressed in period costume portraying some of those interred at the cemetery.