[2] The cemetery contains the Isaac Nettles Gravestones, a series of unusually designed gravestones with "death masks" on them, which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000.

[6] The Mount Nebo Cemetery east of the white church building for Mount Nebo Baptist Church, and are located at the fork where the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers merge.

[1] There are a variety of styles of grave markers, although most are simple and date from the 1950s and forward.

It is unknown if Isaac "Ike" Nettles (1885–1957), the maker of the notable Isaac Nettles Gravestones, is buried in Mount Nebo Cemetery in an unmarked grave or if he was buried in Detroit.

[1][8] In 2006, a person living in the town of Rockford found a concrete bust of a Black man buried on his land, which he donated it to the Clarke County Museum; it is thought to be another work by Nettles.