The first burial at Stony Creek Cemetery occurred in 1825 for Michael Van Wagoner Sr., whose grave remains unmarked, though a monument in his honor was erected in 1978. Among those buried there are some of the township's most prominent residents, including Stony Creek Village's first settlers, Lemuel and Sarah Taylor; their son Joshua, who participated in drafting Michigan's constitution in 1836; Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, one of Michigan's first female surgeons; and her niece Dr. Sarah Van Hoosen Jones, an animal geneticist who by 1933 transformed her family farm into a prize-winning dairy farm and bull breeding facility. Later named "Stoney" Creek, the cemetery displays an array of headstone styles popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also contains the graves of important Avon Township pioneers such as Nathaniel and Sally Millerd, who in 1839 sold 1.7 acres of this land with the understanding that it would be forever used as a public burying ground. Nathaniel Millerd built a gristmill in 1824, operated a general store and the Stony Creek Post Office out of his home, and served as Oakland County's second probate judge. The Stony Creek Masonic Lodge No. 5 owned the cemetery from 1924 until 1981, and a monument erected in 1929 honors the lodge, the only one in Michigan to hold meetings throughout the anti-Masonic fervor that lasted from 1826 to 1844.