This burial ground was part of 600 acres purchased for a poor farm operated by Kaufman County beginning in 1883. It became the final resting place for some of the county's citizens who were poor farm residents, county jail inmates, paupers, transients, and other indigents. It is believed that anonymous victims of an 1871 typhoid fever epidemic were the first buried here, but the earliest marked grave is that of poor farm inmate George McCorkin, who died the year the farm opened. Although many graves remain unmarked, the cemetery preserves a place of final dignity for people whose names are now largely forgotten.