In the 1850s, a group of pioneer Black slaves came to this area from Union County, Arkansas, and founded what is now known as the Rocky Hollow Community. The cemetery was established on land owned by Thomas P. Chapman along the route of the Georgetown-Lampasas road, and although it was used before the Civil War began and mentioned in deed records as early as 1859, the earliest marked grave, that of Confederate veteran William Bacon Tucker, is dated 1865. Known in earlier times as Bullion and as Little Arkansas, the cemetery by 1870 was no longer utilized by Anglo pioneers but continued to be used by former slaves who lived in the nearby Rocky Hollow community. In 1974, graves from Sedwick Family Cemetery were moved to this site because of the creation of Lake Georgetown, and today the cemetery continues to be maintained by descendants of the community’s founders and of many ex-slaves.