Also known as the "Van Cleve Cemetery" until 1911. The first burial was for a small son of Peter Van Cleve in the winter of 1875. As customary, the child was buried on the homestead. The following spring, the Van Cleve family returned to Indiana but deeded the plot of land where the boy was buried for use as a public cemetery before leaving. The oldest dated tombstone is for Nancy Curry who died October 10, 1857. There are 71 marked graves. The last internment was in 1934. This is no longer an active cemetery. Story and photos published in the Winona Sunday News July 5, 1964.

Winona County Abstract Company: Warranty Deed: Peter VanCleve and Lorahama VanCleve (wife) to B.F. Downing, Nathan B. Sanford, Wesley Martin, June 1876, Filed for record June 26, 1885 at 9:10am, Consideration $1.00, conveys 1 1/2 acres of land in the southwest corner of the NE 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Section 19, Tp 106; Rg 6 being a tract of land bounded on the East by the Homer and Houston City Road, on the south by the South Line of said NE 1/4 of SE 1/4, on the West by the West line thereof and extending northward far enough to make 1 1/2 acres of land. In trust, however, for the use of the public as a burying ground or public cemetery. Two witnesses. Acknowledged July 4, 1870 before S.P. Henderson, dist. Clerk, Jefferson County, Kanses.

Written by Allyn M. Ramsden: "If my father, John Ramsden, hadn't owned a canopy top wagon, I probably would not have been familiar with the Homer Cemtery as a child. Only one of my relatives, my great-grandmother Lucinda St. Clair, is buried there. But dad's canopy top, used primarily to haul fruit to Winona, found an active secondary use as an impromtu hearse. This wagon had side curtains and was just large enough for a coffin and a rough box. When dad drove the canopy top to the cemetery he usually let me ride up front with him. A child finds little things entertaining, and I used to like to count the times we crossed the ditch as we went to the cemetery on the ridge. We zig-zagged across that ditch seven times before we got to the cemetery. At that time the place was well-kept. Each family cared for their own lot, and many of the county's oldest settlers were buried there. It is only logical that this cemetery should be one the the oldest in the county, for Homer, founded as Bunnell's Landing in 1849, was the first permanent white settlement in the county. After about 1920 dad's canopy top made fewer and fewer trips to Homer Cemetery as it gradually fell into disuse after the opening of Woodlawn Cemetery in Winona. The people and families buried there became almost legendary, and fact and fiction about the place have become intertwined. For instance - even my mother cannot say for sure that great-grandmother's name was Lucinda. I made my last trip to the cemetery just before I sold my horses which is over 10 years ago (story is not dated). I rode up on horseback, and found the plots overgrown but the fence intact. I have not been in the cemetery since that time.