By tradition, the American flag flies over the cemetery 24 hours a day, rather than merely from sunrise to sunset.

Many prospectors, miners, settlers, prostitutes and children were buried within the Ingelside Cemetery, alongside Wild Bill Hickok and Preacher Smith.

Today it is not uncommon for people working in their garden or remodelling a basement or shed to find human bones as a leftover from the Ingelside Cemetery days.

There are four different sections in the graveyard labelled potter's field, where the graves of unknown people or settlers that came from Ingelside were buried without a stone or marker.

[6] Deadwood was home to a sizable number of Chinese immigrants that settled in the area during the Black Hills gold rush, with an estimated 400 living in the city proper.

The three tombstones read: "會大毓坟" (Grave of Hui Tian Fei), Wong Ngan Oi ("January 27, 1915, Age 15 yrs.