Matthew and Isabella Doyle (Douglass) Donald arrived in Denton County, Texas in 1854, and that year Matthew, a successful farmer, set aside 10 acres for a cemetery, campground, and the Flower Mound Presbyterian Church. He served as the church's first pastor and formally deeded the land to it in 1879. The cemetery was used soon after it was established; the first burial was reportedly that of a girl who died at a church camp meeting. The earliest marked burial is Ola Hall, who died in 1873, and the earliest birth date on a marker is that of Anderson Spinks, born in 1808. Early Flower Mound families initially had plots there, including the Donalds, whose plot includes the cemetery's founder and his brother Robert Henderson Donald, a church deacon and state legislator, as well as the Simmons, Bakers, and Crawfords. In 1950, the Dyer Family Cemetery was relocated to Flower Mound because of the building of Lake Grapevine. Along with the church, the Flower Mound Cemetery Association holds an annual decoration day and worship service, and the burial ground remains a link to generations of residents who contributed to Flower Mound's history.