The Smith-Davis Cemetery, with graves dating to 1842, is located on a high point above the Little Blue River valley, just east of the Raytown-Kansas City border. It lies between the eastbound and westbound lanes of Missouri Highway 350, just east of Westridge Road.

(The position shown is that indicated on current Jackson County property records. However note that some late 1800s and early 1900s plat maps show a cemetery about 1500 feet NNE of this location and no cemetery at this location. The Jackson County property records indicate "approximate" location, so it is somewhat uncertain if there were two cemetery locations, one cemetery location that was moved, or simply an error in one or the other map locations.)

This area was settled by John and Sarah Davis, who moved to Jackson County about 1826 and show up in plat maps and property records for the location of the cemetery in the 1840s and early 1850s.

The cemetery holds the graves of several people important to the area's history, including a descendant of the Daniel Boone family, members of several families active with Quantrill's Raiders and the James-Younger gang after the Civil War, and some of the women caught in the Kansas City Union Prison collapse that precipitated the Sacking of Lawrence by the Quantrill group. Of the four women killed in the Union Prison Collapse, three are buried here and another who survived the collapse with injuries is also buried here, as were both of her husbands - both involved in Quantrill's Raiders.

In addition, the cemetery contained a "large circular area" with the remains of 12 to 15 unknown Civil War soldiers.

The cemetery was canvased by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1933. They found only gravestone remaining, belonging to Sally Davis Landers. That stone is preserved at the 1855 Missouri Town in Blue Springs, about 20 miles east of the cemetery.

Reportedly the cemetery was bulldozed in 1988. In the 2000s there have been efforts to develop the area into a commercial center, including one proposal to preserve a memorial in the cemetery area while developing the surrounding land. But as of 2021, it remains an undeveloped field with no markers or memorials.

The land that the cemetery is on is for sale and it is slated for commercial redevelopment, however, two land deeds from 1937 and 1989 show the cemetery is near the center of the property.