Hiram Brinlee and his brother George traveled with the Collin McKinney family from Kentucky to Texas in 1824, and on that wagon train was Elizabeth McKinney, Collin McKinney's niece and ward; Hiram and Elizabeth married in 1832, moved in 1834 to Pecan Point in present-day Bowie County, and after a Red River flood in 1844 relocated to present-day Collin County on the western bank of Sister Grove Creek east of Melissa, where Hiram built and ran a general store and operated a blacksmith shop in the community known as Stony Point or Chambliss. East of the family homestead, this cemetery became one of two burial grounds serving the early Chambliss community after Hiram Brinlee set aside land for it, with members of his family interred in the northwest section. The earliest marked grave is that of J.C. Osborn, a child buried in 1874, though the death of Hiram and Elizabeth's child Collin A. Brinlee in October 1849 suggests the cemetery may have been in use well before the 1870s. Many graves are those of young children and people who died accidentally, reflecting the hardships faced by early Collin County settlers. Hiram and Elizabeth Brinlee are buried there with many of their descendants, as are pioneers Josiah Nichols and his wife Elizabeth Fitzhugh Nichols. About 70 marked graves remain, including a number of veterans, and there may also be unmarked graves, possibly including burials of enslaved people associated with the Brinlee family, although descendants believe those were closer to the Brinlee house. It remains one of the last tangible reminders of the early rural community of Chambliss.