Steep Hollow Cemetery was part of the Steep Hollow community, named for the valley of the Steep Hollow Branch, a tributary of Wickson Creek. The community's residents were ranchers and farmers, and it had a general store, cotton gin, gristmill, and schoolhouse. Saints Rest Baptist Church, later Steep Hollow Baptist Church, was organized in 1873 and was associated with the cemetery, which first served as a private family burial ground. In 1874, Charles and Evaline Peters conveyed property for the cemetery and surrounding land to the church. The earliest interments were James Peters, who died in 1870, son of Charles and Evaline, and Robert Martin, who died in 1871, son of Sarah Ann Cheshire and the Reverend Samuel Crawford Martin, who died in 1902 and was the first pastor of Saints Rest Baptist Church. The Martins are also buried there with four other ministers of the church. Other burials include teachers, businessmen, farmers, ranchers, and veterans of military conflicts dating to the Civil War. The cemetery is located in a naturalistic setting and features curbing, interior fencing, vertical stones, obelisks, and Woodmen of the World grave markers. In its early years, family members cared for the grounds. By 1926, the Steep Hollow Cemetery Association had formed to maintain the cemetery, and in 1966 the church officially transferred ownership of the burial ground to that association. Steep Hollow Cemetery continues to serve the area and endures as a reminder of the pioneering men and women whose hard work and sacrifice contributed to the establishment of the Steep Hollow community.