History:  The Beck, McPeters, Richardson, Greer, Daugherty, Boles and Blackman families settled in the area in the early 1850's.  Their farms surrounded the area of the cemetery.  A Confederate Camp was located next to the cemetery in 1863 and there are signs of this apparent there today, as the large old walnut trees are full of lead balls from where the soldiers used the trees for target practice.  Also, there have been CSA buttons, buckles and other items discovered there.

This site is in the middle of what was once the Old Warsaw Graveyard, (also called the Scurry Graveyard); however, because nothing was done to keep cattle off the site the remainder of this graveyard, and that of the Old Warsaw Black Graveyard located just south of there, all tombstones and grave markers were destroyed by the 1960's.  There are a few bois d'arc stumps and large stones, which might mark burial sites, scattered amongst the acre and half of irises and wild rose bushes.  Descendants of the Beck family placed an iron fence around the remaining graves in the 1980's to protect what little is left of the cemetery.

The Old Warsaw Black Graveyard was the burial site of some of this areas earliest Afro-American residents,  including the slaves of the McPeters and Richardson families.

Enumerated Feb 1, 1999 by Billy Johnson & Kathey Kelley Hunt

Reportedly there are also some Confederate soldiers buried on the site who died while bivouacked there.

There is no way to distinguish between the Unmarked Graves in Beck's Chapel and Old Warsaw Black Cemeteries.  See the page for the list of Unmarked Graves in either the Old Warsaw Black or Beck's Chapel Cemeteries for graves that were possibly in this cemetery.