On the old _X (LX), the first ranch in Potter County, established in 1877 by W.H. Bates and D.T. Beals, Boston, Mass., industrialists, the earliest burials occurred after the LX was sold in 1884 to the American Pastoral Land and Cattle Company, a British syndicate. The first grave was dug for the LX bookkeeper's wife, Mrs. James Wyness, who died in Tascosa on June 15, 1887; six weeks later the newborn son who survived was laid at her side. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charley Mott died in 1888. The second adult buried here was P.O. "Bunch" McCrary, killed in 1890 when his horse fell on him while he was roping a yearling. In 1893 James Bailey, hauling grain from Amarillo, bogged in quicksand in the Canadian; in getting his wagon out, he suffered exposure that brought on a fatal case of pneumonia. A 1902 grave was for James Bell, found dead in a corral with a bridle in his hand. When the syndicate was liquidated, this portion of the ranch was purchased by early cattleman R.B. Masterson. John Arnot, one of the syndicate's original employees and later a U.S. Government Cattle Brands Inspector, maintained the cemetery until 1945, and it is now cared for by Mrs. Mary Masterson Fain, a descendant of the third owner of the old ranch land.