Richard W. Barnes of Tennessee rests in the earliest recorded grave on this site, dated September 1883, and his wife Elizabeth (Green) and seven known descendants are also buried here. More than 15 burials had already taken place here when Joe C. Moore sold the surrounding land to J. L. F. Dilbeck in 1893. Dilbeck, a merchant, buried several members of his own family in the cemetery. Serving a radius of about five miles, the cemetery was primarily used by Peaster community Baptists until the turn of the century. Those interred here include farmers, merchants, teachers, ministers, and other settlers. Among them was Sarah A. (Curlin) Dodson, who arrived in the Republic of Texas in 1839 and came to the Peaster community after the death of her husband, Charles Dodson, Jr. Sarah Dodson worked as a midwife while raising six children, and her descendants remained in Parker County. A 1997 count found 344 marked graves within 2.7 acres, including twenty-five anonymous graves marked only with rocks. At that time, more than 23 members of the Stevens clan formed the largest family group, and more than twenty veterans of American and international conflicts were buried here.