This cemetery stood on a hill overlooking the plantation home of Richard B. Hubbard and his wife Serena Carter, who came from Georgia in 1854 and operated a prosperous 720-acre plantation with 44 slaves. Their son Richard Bennett Hubbard, a Harvard Law School graduate who established a law practice in Tyler, later became lieutenant governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876 and governor from 1876 to 1879, while also serving as a railroad promoter and a leader in the state and national Democratic Party. During the Civil War, while he served with the Confederate army, his wife and children moved to the plantation. His twin daughters Mattie and Hattie died in 1863 and were buried on this hill, where his father, his infant daughter Claudia, and his wife Eliza, who died in 1868, were also interred. The last burial here was his nine-year-old son Bennie in 1877, and slave burials in the family plot are marked with ironstone. President Grover Cleveland later appointed Hubbard United States Minister to Japan, and during his service there from 1885 to 1890, his second wife Janie Roberts died of cholera; she and Hubbard, along with other family members, are buried in Tyler's Oakwood Cemetery.