Fairmont Cemetery serves citizens near the northern tip of Texas in an area shaped by the movement of nearby settlements. In 1901, area settlers established Ivanhoe, Oklahoma, eight miles north, and in 1909 that town moved two miles to the Beaver Valley and Northwestern Railway, became South Ivanhoe, and left behind only the Methodist church building. Eight years later, citizens moved again across the state line to a new townsite on the North Texas and Santa Fe Railway, where buildings from South Ivanhoe, including a hotel and bank, were dragged on skids beginning in December 1917; the settlement was named for railroad engineer Horace Follett and received a post office in 1918. Even before Follett was established, Dr. Charles and Ora White, who owned land in South Ivanhoe and at this site, deeded land for Fairmont Cemetery in 1910. The first burial was the reinterment of Myra Jones, a mother of six who was killed by lightning in 1904 and originally buried at the Gigger Ranch, and her widowed husband, Michael "Uncle Mac" Jones, became the cemetery's first caretaker. In the 1920s, Frederick Harhausen and his two sons hauled more than 200 cedar trees from near Vici, Oklahoma, planting them around the perimeter and in a central circle, and those outlining trees remain among the cemetery's distinctive features. Those buried here include children of Mexican railroad workers who died during the influenza epidemic of 1918, as well as more than one hundred military veterans, three killed in action in World War II. The Fairmont Cemetery Association, founded in 1909, cares for the cemetery.