The Wallace-Harrison Family Cemetery is on Barganier Lane in Section 14, Township 11 North, Range 14 East, of Butler County, Alabama. The cemetery is within a few feet of the paved road, on the east side of the road, 7/10ths of a mile southeast of the intersection of Barganier Lane with Alabama Highway 185.

The cemetery was established on land originally patented by Seaborn Wallace in 1836, and it's the burial place of a strongly related group of people. Seaborn Wallace's father, Abram Wallace, had patented land nearby in 1818, and his generation may have been the first to bury family members there. Seaborn Wallace was married to Senea Harrison, daughter of pioneer settler George Harrison, whose son Jonathan Harrison married Seaborn Wallace's sister, Barbary Wallace. Jonathan Harrison patented tracts near the cemetery as early as 1817, and his father George Harrison had a patent in the same section in 1818.

The nearest villages to the Wallaces and Harrisons in the early 1800s were the pioneer settlements of Dead Fall (a vanished hamlet at the intersection of Barganier Lane and Alabama Hwy 185 today), and Fort Dale, several miles to the southwest. Both settlements were on the Federal Road, a path that drew thousands of settlers into this part of Alabama in the early 1800s. Later, in the 1880s, a depot was established on the Louisville & Nashville railroad between Montgomery and Mobile, a little over a mile southeast of the Wallace-Harrison land. The depot was called "Searcy Station" and then "Searcy," for the station master, merchant, postmaster and constable, James Riley Searcy.

The area settled by the Wallaces and Harrisons and their neighbors and relatives (including Barganier, Butler, Cates, Cheatham, Dickson, Gafford, Hartley, Heaton, Hinson, Manley, Martin, Moseley, Porterfield, Routon, Tillery, Williamson and others) hosted a thriving rural life well into the 20th century. The community had a school, post office, train depot, stores and dozens of farms. By the mid-20th century, however, the landscape began to change. The community population dwindled and people gradually moved away. Today, in addition to a few Victorian-era farmhouses, the most prominent remaining landmark is the Searcy School House, built in 1922. It's one of the few original wood-frame school houses remaining in Butler County.

The Wallace-Harrison Cemetery was surveyed by a member of The Butler County Historical Society in the 1990s, who recorded 6 markers with fairly legible inscriptions, a broken slab noted as "illegible," and a marker with 3 names on one stone. A survey in May 2023 identified 5 of the 6 legible stones recorded in the 1990s, the single modern stone with 3 names (apparently a replacement for 3 lost/damaged older markers), and an additional marker for an infant not recorded in the 1990s survey. Most of the marked burials found in the Wallace-Harrison Family Cemetery are persons with death dates in the 1880s. Depressions in the area around the handful of surviving tombstones indicate a number of other graves whose markers (if the graves had markers) have fallen and broken and are now covered by earth and forest debris. Wooden markers were common in the 19th century, and if those markers were placed on Wallace-Harrison graves, the wood has deteriorated and vanished. — Cemetery and community history by Annie Crenshaw (Find a Grave #47035607)