White Deer Cemetery likely began as an informal burial ground before 1916, when Mrs. Beulah V. Tillman, a “femme sole,” purchased 155 of the 160 acres in Block 7 of Survey 26 of the International and Great Northern Railroad Company, leaving out the remaining five acres that may already have been used for burials. It is believed that a railroad employee who died in an accident about 1905 was buried there, though no burial records survive. The White Deer Cemetery Association was formed in March 1923, with John Gores, J.C. Jackson, C.E. Evans, G.B. Moss, and W.H. Brady as its first directors, and Frederic de P. Foster, representing the White Deer Land Company, sold the five-acre cemetery tract to the association trustees for one dollar. A second charter was filed in 1953, but the association later became inactive. In 1991, interested citizens reestablished the association, which continues to oversee the site. The oldest marked burial is the 1915 grave of Howard Milhoan, while a replacement gravestone for infant Jewel Brady incorrectly gives her death year as 1914 instead of 1916. Burials also include veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and the cemetery remains tied to White Deer’s early pioneers while continuing to serve the community and surrounding area.