This cemetery contains the remains of nearly 60 Confederate veterans including Jacob Summerlin and Evander McIver Law. Jacob Summerlin was a successful cattle businessman who was known as the Cattle King of South Florida, and as the King of the Crackers, a term applied to Florida cowmen.

During the Civil War, Summerlin served as Chief Beef Quartermaster in the Commissary Department, and was the primary supplier of Florida beef to the Confederacy. His cracker cowmen drove the cattle north to holding pens at Baldwin in Duval County and other railheads for eventual transport to the Confederate armies.

A native of South Carolina, Evander McIver Law was in Alabama at the outbreak of the Civil War and served as a captain with the Alabama troops that assisted in the seizure of the Pensacola Navy Yard and adjacent forts in early 1861. By 1865, Law had been promoted to major general and had led his troops in many of the major battles of the war in the eastern theater. After the Civil War, Law eventually moved to Bartow in 1893 to establish the South Florida Military Institute.

Hundreds of mourners attended Law's funeral procession to Oak Hill Cemetery on November 2, 1920, and all of Polk County's businesses and schools closed early on that day. A small stone monument in downtown Bartow marks the site of Law's home.

Information Provided by the Florida Department of State.