[2] In the aftermath of the American Civil War of 1861–1865, many local veterans of the Confederate States Army were buried here.

[2] By 1900, the United Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the construction of a Confederate monument in their memory, with a Bonnie Blue Flag in the center.

[2] A third monument was erected by the Dyersburg Corporation for their employees at the historic Trenton Cotton Mills circa 1990.

[2] Notable burials include Confederate colonels Thomas Jones Freeman and Munson Rufus Hill as well as Congressmen Robert Porter Caldwell and James C.

Part of the parcel became Ward cemetery; it appears on plat drawings dated 21 April 1942.