 The cemetery also contains the graves of Joseph Thoburn and Daniel E. Frost, prominent in the West Virginia statehood movement and who died fighting for the Union in the American Civil War.Other historic burials include Dr. Simon Hullihen (perhaps the first oralmaxilliary surgeon in the U.S.), and Dr. Eliza Hughes (West Virginia's first female doctor and the sister of Confederate sympathizer and Ohio County's Virginia Civil War state delegate Dr. Alfred Hughes).The earliest gravestone contains an 1817 date.