Jackson Hawkins Griffin came to Liberty in 1835 and, after serving with the Liberty Volunteers during the Texas Revolution and taking part in the Siege of Bexar, made his home near this site, where it often served as a boarding house for families new to the area. Jesse Daniel Lum and his son, Jesse Daniel Lum Jr., rented rooms there soon after arriving from Louisiana in 1843, and when the elder Lum died in 1846, Griffin provided space on his land for a burial site. From then on the plot was known locally as Griffin Cemetery. Griffin enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862 and was killed in the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, in 1864. His heirs later sold the land to Dr. James P. Cooke, who donated the cemetery property to the Liberty Methodist Church in 1881. Cooke was buried there in 1892, and the burial ground also became known as Cooke Memorial Cemetery. The Methodist Church maintained it as a private burial ground until 1981, when restoration reopened the cemetery to public use, and it remains a reminder of Liberty's past.