Mayberry Cemetery is known to have been used as a burying ground by the Ham family as far back as the 1870s but it was not until after the death and burial here of Martha Mary Ann (Ham) Lawrence that her widowed husband, William Henry Lawrence, purchased this land to be formally designated as a cemetery. Lawrence paid $1 to the heirs of Barton Kamon Witt Bradley for the property on January 3, 1899.

The legal location of the cemetery was described at the time as being "the West part of the Southwest 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 26 of Township 20, North of Range 23 West, bounded as follows: beginning at a point 27 rods and 18 links north of the center of Section 26 of Township 20 North of Range 23 West where sit a sand stone, from which a post oak 10 inches in diameter bears North 31 1/2 degrees, East 44 links, and a post oak 12 inches in diameter bears south 72 degrees, West 6 links then South 11 rods and 28 links to place of beginning."

Mayberry Cemetery measured 42 feet by 69 feet and contained approximately two dozen mostly native field stone grave markers in the 1980s although there were a few tombstones that had been emgraved.

Mayberry Cemetery was named for the small community that once stood at that site which is three miles northeast of Green Forest, Arkansas. The community had been named after a Baptist minister known as Elder Oren A. Maybrey. His surname has also been found spelled as Mabrey and is spelled "Mayberry" on his tombstone in the Zion Hill Cemetery in Green Forest, Arkansas.

All that remains of the Mayberry community today is the cemetery and an old community root cellar.

In 1994, a mailbox was placed on a post near the entrance to the cemetery with the name "Mayberry" on the mailbox. Inside was a map of the location of each of the known graves in Mayberry Cemetery along with a pencil and some paper for visitors to leave notes for future visitors.