Magnolia Creek Cemetery, named for the watercourse along one of its boundaries, traces its establishment to the settlement of Willis and Hepsibah Perkins Butler and her mother, Martha Morgan Perkins; Samuel J. and Rebecca and Coward Perkins; Allen and Margaret Perkins Coward; and Needham and Elizabeth Perkins Coward in this area in 1855. Descendants of these four families account for most of the people buried here and include four veterans of the Civil War. The first recorded burial was Samuel J. Perkins in 1859, and the first legal record of the cemetery appears in a deed executed in 1884 by Rebecca Ann Coward Perkins to M. R. Hays, which reserved 4 acres for graveyard purposes. During the 1870s and 1880s, George Washington Butler arranged for several family members to be interred in the cemetery grounds, and his prominence in the community and burial here in 1921 is believed to have led many local citizens to call it Butler Cemetery. In 1982, an agreement between the Magnolia Creek Cemetery Association and developers of adjacent land guaranteed its preservation for future generations.