In the town of Arba, Greensfork Township, Randolph County, Indiana.

Located on a hill behind the Arba Friends Church. It sits about 1/4 mile from the main road, which is also the only street through the village. (County Road 700E,also called Arba Pike). The church itself sits back a slight distance but is visible in both directions as no structures are near it.

Settlement of Randolph County began within the area in 1814. By 1815 the village had sprang up and a Friends Meeting was established the same year. A pole cabin meetinghouse doubling as a school was built in what is now the cemetery. The site is marked by a small stone monument. In 1824 a log building replaced the first structure. It also was used as both church and schoolhouse. The present brick edifice was built in 1854 and is the oldest continuously used church building in Randolph County. The town was platted in 1855. In the late 1800's the railroad was built 2 1/2 miles north and this led to the decline of the community. Today Arba is a small, unincorporated community consisting of the church and several homes along Arba Pike.

This was the first cemetery established in the County. The early Friends (Quakers) denomination did not mark graves therefore it is assumed there may be unmarked burials. The Quaker church records would be the only clue to such early burials. This practice eventually gave way to field stones or small stones about a foot above ground. These were often engraved only with initials or just a name and date of death. Toward the end of the Civil War small monuments began to be allowed and by the turn of the century regular tombstones were being used.

The church history mentions a long row of graves of victims from the cholera epidemic which struck Arba in 1849. The epidemic is mentioned several times in Tucker's History of Randolph County. The events surrounding it are rather mysterious. In the morning (of an unspecified date), a black threatening cloud came up from the east and covered the sky. There was some thunder and a little rain, suddenly a stroke of lightning struck the earth about a mile east of Lynn and near to Arba. The sky was filled with smoke and a smell of burning sulpher filled the air, which lasted some time. The cholera began the same day when a few persons passing near the site, became sick and died. It spread along roads west and south of the strike site, and lasted two or three weeks. In the evenings after dark there was an uncommonly sharp smell hanging in the air. Cholera is a bacterial disease, the result of polluted water and food. It is assumed the lightning struck a pool of brackish water which then contaminated the surrounding groundwater systems. A total of 27 persons died in the vicinity of Arba. (These burials do not have memorials on this site at this time).

The earliest burial seems to be that of Nathan Overman in 1818. Tucker's 1882 History of Randolph County, Indiana, page 367, states Ann Peale Parker was the second or third person buried in Arba Cemetery. This cemetery is still in use as of 2026.