Founded in 1867 in connection with Oakland Baptist Church, which stood here until it was moved to Roans Prairie in 1913, this cemetery contains the graves of many pioneers. Oakland was once a popular way-station for the Bates and Black Stagecoach Lines, which ran from Austin to Huntsville until 1880. The road, known as Coushatta Trace, was originally a trail of the Coushatta Indians, a friendly tribe that hunted in this territory. In 1838, Mrs. Taylor, the last known person killed by Indians in Grimes County, was murdered not far from this site.