The families of Benjamin and Hannah (Weed) Abshier and Benjamin and Sarah (Hanks) Weed came to this area of Texas from Louisiana in 1843, purchased land, and established farms in this vicinity. In June 1852, the Abshiers' 27-year-old daughter, Lucinda Abshier Higginbotham, died, leaving a husband and six children, and was laid to rest on the Abshier family farm in a plot of land that became a family graveyard. Since then, many generations of Abshier, Weed, and related families have been interred there, including veterans of the War of 1812, the Texas Revolution, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and Korea. The cemetery includes unusual and elaborate grave markers, including tree-trunk-shaped monuments of the Woodmen of the World Lodge, a 19th-century fraternal organization, as well as a number of unmarked burials. A cemetery association established in 1896 maintains the historic graveyard, whose original two-acre plot was enlarged to three acres in 1938, and it continues to serve as a reminder of early Liberty County pioneers.