Willis Parker arrived in this area from North Carolina in the 1850s, and many of his relatives later joined him in Texas. After his death about 1857, his parents, Ralph R. and Sarah C. Hodge Parker, set aside land on their farm for a family cemetery. Although Willis Parker's grave is believed to be the oldest there, his father's grave bears the earliest tombstone, dated 1861. Among more than four hundred marked and unmarked graves, most are interments of the Parker family and related families, including veterans of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.