In 1802, Aaron Nutt was commissioned to build the first meeting house for the Baptist Church of Sugar Creek on his land directly in front of the cemetery. A road (Main St.) was cut through the dense forest to make easier access to the church. The log church was replaced in 1831 with a stone church. The stone church was razed in 1872. The first burial in the cemetery was in 1803.

The first recorded meeting of the Sugar Creek Baptists (Now Centerville Baptist Church) [and now Cross Point Church] was November 2, 1799.  In 1802, property was purchased from Aaron Nutt and by 1803, a meeting house was erected on the west side of the cemetery.  Early residents traveled to the church on trails which were blazed through the wilderness from settlements five miles away.  On July 4, 1807, the church trustees appointed Benjamin Robbins and Whitely Hatfield "to lay off a burial ground in proper manner."  Additions to the cemetery continued until 1868, which extended the cemetery to the present boundaries.  Many early settlers including veterans of the revolutionary and other wars, are interred here.  The cemetery is currently maintained by Washington Township."