In 1848, eleven years after Liberty was incorporated, the town's trustees appointed a committee to choose a suitable location for a community burial ground, and this four-acre tract was selected as the city cemetery. Because local leaders made no provision for selling burial plots, families chose grave sites for themselves, often marking them with cypress or iron pickets. Although the graveyard contains many unmarked graves, the earliest known burial was four-year-old Caroline A. Lund in August 1850. Many of Liberty's pioneer citizens were buried here, along with war veterans including Franklin Hardin (1803-1878) and Cornelius de Vore (1819-1883), who took part in the Battle of San Jacinto, and E.B. Pickett (1823-1882), an early Texas statesman who served as president of the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875. By 1946, crowding required the opening of a new cemetery southeast of town. This site remains in use, but burials are now limited to families of people already interred here, and the gravesites are maintained by the Liberty Cemetery Association.