Rowlett Creek Cemetery, the largest of the thirteen cemeteries in the Plano area, has more than 1250 gravesites, remains active, and contains the burials of early pioneers, their descendants, and three ancestors of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Families buried there left names still carried by Plano schools, cemeteries, a high school, a library, and a park, and five members of the Peters Colony are interred there, including Alfred Harrington, the first person buried after his death from pneumonia in 1862, Charlie Gough, the second burial, and Civil War veteran Colonel Edward Chambers, who later served four times in the Texas House of Representatives from 1872 to 1886. Although the cemetery’s first burial was in 1862, nine tombstones record earlier deaths, including Nancy Bush in 1856, probably moved from a family farm burial plot, which was not unusual at the time. Its history is closely tied to the earliest Baptist church in Collin County, founded in 1848 as Wilson Creek Church of United Baptists and renamed Rowlett Creek Baptist Church in 1852; George White deeded six acres in 1861 for a meeting house, and Shadrick and Sophronia Jackson added four adjoining acres in 1862. The nearby creek, named for pioneer Dr. Daniel Rowlett of Kentucky, was used for baptisms, and the church building became known for revival meetings, served also as a schoolhouse, and functioned weekly as a quasi-courthouse where members answered charges such as repeated absences, dancing, card playing, fighting, or intoxication. A new building was erected in 1885, the present church dates to 1951, and the years 1895 and 1920 on the entrance arch mark the organization of the Rowlett Creek Cemetery Association and its twenty-fifth anniversary; the association still maintains the grounds and continues the annual Decoration Day on the first Sunday in May, a tradition more than one hundred years old. Three ancestors of Lyndon B. Johnson are buried there: John S. Huffman, who came to Texas in 1850 and became a cattle breeder; Dr. John S. Huffman, who arrived in 1848 with the Peters Colony, practiced medicine, raised cattle and horses, served as a Confederate surgeon during the Civil War, and married Mary Elizabeth Perrin; and Ruth Ament Huffman, who married Joseph Baines and later moved to McKinney, where Johnson’s mother, Rebekah Baines, was born. Among the cemetery’s most distinctive monuments are tree-stump and log-shaped grave markers known as treestones, identifying burials of members of the Woodmen of the World.