The Cane Hill Cemetery sits atop a hill overlooking Cane Hill.
The entrance is marked by two stone piers and a metal gateway with a sign reading “Cane Hill Cemetery”
The earliest graves in the cemetery, some dating to the mid-1830s, were marked by ordinary field stones with inscriptions scratched in the rock. Among the earliest graves in the cemetery are those of Thomas Garvin (1834) and Thomas Buchanan (1836), both pioneers of the Cane Hill community. Cane Hill Cemetery also contains several other early settler and Civil War-era burials. The site was once home to an early log structure that served as the church and schoolhouse. The cemetery developed from the early graveyard associated with the church grounds.
On November 28th, 1862, Union Brigadier General James G. Blunt and 5,000 Union soldiers confronted Confederate Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke and his 2,000 soldiers, who had returned to Cane Hill to forage for supplies to ship back to Van Buren by wagon train. Blunt drove the Confederates south in a nine hour running battle. He stayed in Cane Hill at the Methodist Manse until the Battle of Prairie Grove in early December 1862.