[1] The cemetery is the burial site for about twenty people, most of whom are African American.

One legend said they were former slaves that came by way of the Underground Railroad, but because this settlement was most definitely post-Civil War that seems unlikely.

[2] There is speculation that they were Exodusters who came up from the American South and settled initially in Kansas before moving to Nebraska and then into Iowa.

While some intermarried, a group from Belvidere, now a ghost town, petitioned the court to have the African Americans removed.

[3] Monona County's Black population was 88 in the 1880s before it declined to 23 in the 1890 census, six in 1900, and zero in 1910.