The community of Veal's Station developed by 1851 in northeastern Parker County and became a stop on the stagecoach line running from Fort Worth to Fort Richardson. Named for William G. Veal, the settlement thrived as an educational and religious center, with Veal's Station College, Parsons College, and a masonic institute operating from the 1850s to the early 1900s, before its population declined after many of the school buildings burned. In 1857, when early settler William Woody patented 320 acres in the area, a corner of his field already contained primitive graves marked by native stones, and he established a community cemetery there that year. The first known burial, Mary Ann Broils Rector, occurred the following year. Among other notable burials are early settler Martha Cockburn Tucker; William Woody and his wife, Elisabeth; Joseph Looney Woody, who participated in the 1869 little salt creek Indian fight; and county commissioner Jesse Andrew Gilley and his wife, Missouri Gilley, who was a Delaware Indian. Veal's Station cemetery comprises approximately 2.7 acres and more than 740 burials, including numerous pioneer families, early postmasters, veterans from the Civil War to Vietnam, elected officials, clergy, teachers, and members of fraternal organizations, and it remains an active burial ground cared for by the Veal's Station community, which began annual cemetery meetings by 1942.