Settlement in this area of Fisher County began in the early 1880s, and a small frame building erected near this site in 1883-1884 served as both a school and church while a cemetery was established and in use by 1884. The church was named for its first pastor, J.B. Woods. Among the first settlers were Henry Clay Lyon (1815-1889) and his family; Lyon, a native of Tennessee, was a veteran of the Republic of Texas Army and of the Confederate forces in the Civil War. Although Lyon was buried here, a granite marker honoring him was placed in Roby Cemetery at the graves of his wife and children, and plans to reinter him beside his widow during the Texas Centennial of 1936 were never carried out. The earliest marked grave is that of Sarah H. Lawrence (1881-1884), a granddaughter of Henry C. Lyon. Of the twenty-six marked graves, thirteen are those of infants or small children, and the graveyard also contains at least twenty-eight unmarked graves. An important part of Fisher County history, it is also the site of an annual San Jacinto Day observance on April 21.