The cemetery is located on Lot 9 in the 2nd Concession, South Crosby. That lot was originally purchased from the Crown by Walter Davis in 1802. Walter Davis, who built the Mills at the Rideau Lock that now bears his name, was the first burial in that Cemetery on Nov 14, 1817. In 1824 his lot was sold to Thomas Ripley. In 1867, he sold it to Car Lee Ripley, less the two acres that was the Church of England Cemetery. By the end of the century, the church had constructed a Chapel and Parsonage next to the cemetery. The last burial was mid-20th Century, and in 1990, the Township of South Crosby had the site Designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. There are several brass plaques on monuments stating that the men interred there served in the 2nd Company of the Leeds Militia and had fought in the War of 1812-1814. The cemetery is owned and maintained by the Township of Rideau Lakes. The cemetery is identified by a Township sign on the Smith Road east of Elgin.