In 1861, James Lee settled on the west side of Big Meadows, not too far from where the original town of Prattville would be established, He died on June 17, 1864 and buried on his property. This, in time, became the Prattville Cemetery.
In 1914, Great Western Power Company transformed a portion of Big Meadows into Lake Almanor. In 1926, Great Western was in the process to heighten its dam, where by Lake Almanor would double in size. Thus, Great Western had to mitigate some of the areas impacted by the increased size of Lake Almanor, such as the construction of the Chester Causeway and the Prattville Cemetery would need to be moved to higher ground.
In October 1926, Great Western hired Greenville resident Kenneth Murray to exhume the bodies, some 101, and move them 300 yards to the west. A.D. Greig of the Susanville Marble Works was in charge of relocating the thirty-five monuments in the cemetery.
On a final Pacific Gas & Electric Company, the successor of Great Western, donated the Prattville Cemetery to the Chester Cemetery District in 1962.