Tennessee native Thomas Lindsey, born in 1794, brought his family to this part of Fannin County in 1837. In the late 1840s, he donated four acres of his farmland for a school and cemetery, where the first burial was one of his slaves. The one-room schoolhouse built next to the graveyard also served as a community church where funeral services were held. Over the years, the cemetery served residents of the surrounding area, including Randolph, founded in 1887 on the Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas Railroad. Randolph’s main street stood about 3/4 mile southwest of the Lindsey School and cemetery, connected by a wooden sidewalk. In the middle 1890s, the Lindsey School was moved to Randolph, and the original school grounds were added to the cemetery. Those buried there include Thomas Lindsey, his wife Rebecca, their son-in-law the Rev. Burwell Cox, who organized several Presbyterian churches in the area, as well as businessmen, farmers, doctors, pioneer citizens and their descendants, and veterans of several wars.