Joseph K. Klepper obtained his Peters Colony land grant and set aside part of it as a cemetery before 1848. He and his wife Nancy later deeded nearby land to the Methodist Episcopal Church, the earliest Methodist church in Plano, which existed from 1874 until 1894. After the church moved, the surrounding area developed into an African American neighborhood, and the African American community has used the cemetery since the 1920s. Many early Plano pioneers and their descendants are buried there, including five Peters Colony settlers, several other early settlers, black pioneers such as Andy Drake, who died in 1934 and was the first free African American to live in Plano, and several African American community leaders. The earliest death date on gravestones of people known to have been buried there is 1881. Although some burials have been moved to other cemeteries, the cemetery still contains about 200 burials. Its grave markers include professionally made marble and granite monuments as well as homemade markers, with rows of unmarked burial depressions also visible. A few family plots are defined by concrete or wood curbs, with older European American burials in the northeast portion and more recent African American burials in the northwest and southern sections.