The Col. William Candler Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution secured a lot in Gainesville’s Alta Vista Cemetery in 1926 to provide a place to memorialize the county’s citizens who fought in that war. At the time, the bodies of Col. William Clark and his wife Ruth Goodwin Clark were removed from Cowan Cemetery near New Bridge Church to the triangular plot at Alta Vista. Later the grave of Beal Baker, another Revolutionary soldier, was located, and his body interred in the DAR lot.