Originally the cemetery lay outside the city limits. At that time the grounds were much larger than they are today. It is said that “slaves were buried in part of the Grove Street side which the city later salvaged by filling in.” 

Upon examination of the stones and markers local visitors will recognize many names: Cabell, Chambers, Craghead, Dame, Johns, Lanier, Noble, Patton, Robertson, Ross, and Wilson. General Benjamin W. S. Cabell, a veteran of the war of 1812, rests here, as do many veterans of the Civil War. 

Within the past year, with the cooperation and assistance of the Department of Public Works and W. D. Rowe Company, Inc., the Garden Club of Danville as been instrumental in halting the further deterioration of the cemetery which had for some years been in a state of neglect and decline. Some repair and pruning of trees has taken place, rusting cast iron fences have been painted, and fallen stones and monuments have been reset or repaired.