After Hulltown, later Moran, was founded in 1883, nearby Dennis and Johnson cemeteries were the only burial grounds until Moran citizens in 1896 elected local business leaders Matthew D. Bray, Aaron J. Thomas, and John W. Despain as trustees to lay out and supervise a public burial ground. On March 19, 1896, the trustees bought 2 1/3 acres two miles east of Moran from Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Townsend for $29.16, and additional acreage was later acquired in 1951 from L.L. Harris, in 1953 from Jim Tom Brooks, and in 1981 from Brenda Martin. The oldest marked grave is that of Lucy Brazell Snider, who died on February 22, 1896. Among the more than 1,800 individuals buried there are Moran pioneers including G.E. Waters, C.B. Snyder, Jim Cottle, R.A. Elliott, and M.D. Bray, as well as numerous military veterans. The north boundary along the highway is a native stone fence built in 1933 with funds from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation through the Texas Relief Commission to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression. In 1926, interested citizens organized the Moran Cemetery Association to maintain the growing cemetery, and beginning in the 1930s the association prepared and served meals to members and guests of the Moran Luncheon Club, Moran’s longtime chamber of commerce organization. Proceeds from those meals helped the association hire a full-time caretaker and establish a financial base, and the association continues to maintain the cemetery with patron donations and sales of new burial plots.