Pioneer Cemetery was the first burial ground in Dawson County. It was given by Frank Conner. The first grave, on Nov. 10, 1904, was for Mrs. G. W. Pate, who had suggested the cemetery. The plot closed in 1907, except for the 1949 burial of W. R. Kelly beside his wife. The twenty-two others buried here are Montie Andrews, Carrie Baker, Mrs. J. M. Baker, infants Bowser, Dickenson, McNew, and Senter, Mrs. Zeke Harris, G. W. Kelly, Eunice C. Lindsey, John R. Lindsey, W. W. McElwain, S. H. Maxwell, Mrs. Elmira Pate, Ollie Pate, Frances C. Printz, John Puryear, Floyd Rains, John Earl Seeds, Roger Simpson, Mart Trammel, and Elizabeth Wright.