In 1870, Captain Henry J. Thompson, Chief Justice of Jack County, Texas Ranger, and Fort Worth Mason, allowed his neighbor and Confederate veteran William Terry Allen to bury his first wife, Sarah Anne “Fannie” Grant Allen, on his property, establishing Thompson Public Cemetery one-third mile from the Allen log cabin home. Six months later their son George E. Allen was buried there, followed by another son, Willie Allen, in 1884. William T. Allen was later buried in the cemetery in 1893, beside his second wife, Theodocia “Docia” Earnest Grant, the younger sister of his first wife. Another Grant sister, Martha Jane Grant, who married Confederate veteran John Jay Ingram, is also buried there. The cemetery has also been known as Allen, Farmer, Thompson Community Cemetery, Thompson Neighbors’ Cemetery, and Thompson Cemetery. Many pioneer settler families of White Settlement, River Oaks, and Westworth Village are buried there, including River Oaks founder James Ventioner and his wife Millie Farmer, the first couple married in White Settlement in 1851. Cleo Akins, a child from a wagon train passing through the area, was buried in an undated grave marked with pebbles spelling her name. Dollie Shrewder Smith, widow of Civil War and Mexican War veteran Alexander Purnell Smith, is buried there along with her son and father. Also buried there are the Farmer brothers, Joseph, Elijah, and David, who were the first to build homes in White Settlement. Today the cemetery reflects the lives of pioneer settlers and their descendants.