This cemetery no longer exists. There are no cemetery gates or graves to photograph.

This was one of the first recognized cemeteries in Helena, and was located behind Grade School Number 1 and behind the High School on Warren Street. Grade School Number 1 was torn down after the present Central School was built and the High School was demolished at a later date. Most graves were removed to Benton Avenue Cemetery but some were moved to Forestvale Cemetery, Home of Peace Cemetery and Poor Farm Cemetery.

"NOTICE – Proposals will be received at the Clerk's office, Lewis and Clarke county, M.T., until 12 o'clock M. of the First Monday in January, 1879, for the exhuming of the remains of the dead bodies now lying in the old cemetery, near the Helena Public School House, and for the removal of the same to the burial ground known as the County Cemetery, and their proper interment therein. The new graves to be at least (3 ½) three and one half feet deep. The contractor is to furnish new caskets where the present ones are so far decayed as to render their removal unsafe. Also, to remove from the old and replace at the new graves all monuments, railings, head and foot boards, and all other marks of whatever kind that will enable the friends of the deceased to identify his or her tomb. By order the Board of County Commissioners, O. B. TOTTEN, County Clerk and Recorder, dec14-dtd." Helena Daily Independent, 12/14/1878

"Contract for removal of bodies with Gus Seniert, removing bodies from old cemetery to new cemetery for $8.00 each, contract accepted." Lewis and Clark County Commissioner's Minutes, 12/20/1878

"An Unknown Grave. Mr. Gus Senieur, who has the contract for removing the bodies from the old graveyard, near the school house, to the new, yesterday found a fine metallic coffin in good state of preservation. The box surrounding it had entirely decayed. It is of medium size. There was no mark to indicate the name of the deceased or the time of death. If any person claims it, or possesses any knowledge as to whom it belongs should call upon Mr. Senieur, who will not inter it for several days." Daily Independent, 1/28/1879

"All old residents will recollect the first murder that took place in the summer of 1865. The circumstances in brief were these: Harry Slater was killed while sitting in front of a saloon near where the clothing house of Gans & Klein now stands, by Johnny Keene, who had followed his victim from Salt Lake. The cause of their quarrel is not remembered by us, but that is not necessary for the purpose of this article. Keene was given a fair trial and hung by the citizens, and the assassin and his victim were buried side by side. Yesterday, while workmen were engaged in removing the bodies from the old burial ground, the two graves were opened. The remains of Slater had crumbled to dust, but those of Keene, strange to say, were almost as perfect as the day they were placed in the coffin. The features are so perfect that they are easily recognized, and the hair remains on the head and has not even changed in color. – Independent" Rocky Mountain Husbandman, 2/3/1879

"Gus Seniert presented bill for removing 198 bodies from old to new cemetery according to contract. Amounting to $1,584.00, allowed – general fund." Lewis and Clark County Commissioner's Minutes, 3/6/1879

Rodney Pococke was the first person to die in Helena on March 7, 1865. At a later date his remains were removed to Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri and buried in the Pococke family plot.