William Sachse, a native of Prussia, arrived in nearby Collin County in 1845 as a Peters colonist and became a successful businessman, rancher, and trader who participated in several cattle drives to Kansas. His success allowed him to acquire more than 5000 acres in Collin and Dallas Counties. In 1886, he gave some of this land to the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad for a railway line and townsite, and the community that grew up around the railroad was named Sachse in his honor. He moved his family to the new town and soon set aside two acres of land for a church and cemetery. The graveyard has been used throughout its history as a public burial ground. The oldest marked grave, William Sachse's, is dated 1899. His second wife, Martha (Frost), a number of their descendants, and many early settlers and their descendants are buried there, including members of the Salmon, Herring, Ingram, House, Harper, and Brand families. With its ties to early settlement in this part of the state, the cemetery remains an important reminder of the area's heritage.