Pinkney Harold Ford (1831-1901) led a Kentucky family that migrated to Texas in 1855 and settled in the area of North Arlington, then known as the Watson Community. John J. Goodwin held the original patent to this cemetery property. The oldest marked grave is that of Maria Trayler (b. 1799), who died in 1858. Ford, a Civil War veteran, purchased the property in 1879 and designated the site as a community burial ground. He and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1898, farmed nearby land. Industrial development later surrounded this remnant of the pioneer community.