The Clear Creek community formed in the 1850s near the route of the Old Gonzales Road, which ran from San Felipe through Columbus, Oakland, and Gonzales to San Antonio, and a church was organized there in the same decade. In 1860, Edward M. Glenn officially deeded land to Methodist Episcopal Church South trustees Zachariah Payne, O.B. Crenshaw, and John Tooke. The cemetery that grew around the Clear Creek Church became the main burial ground for the area through the 1880s, although records indicate that several burials had already taken place there before its formal establishment. Among the earliest burials were J.C.C. Barnett, son of Joseph and Mary Barnett, Cynthia Cleveland, wife of Horatio Johnson Cleveland, and Martha Miles Burgess, all interred in the 1850s. After the railroad reached nearby Weimar in 1873, the population in the Clear Creek area began to decline, but families continued using the cemetery for several years even after Clear Creek Church was torn down in 1886 and used to build a new church in Oakland. The last recorded burial was John Anderson Lamkin, who died in 1929. More than a dozen Civil War veterans are buried there, along with members of the 19th-century fraternal organization the Sons of Temperance. Notable features include false crypts, iron and wooden fences around family plots, and grave markers of marble, granite, and local sandstone quarried from Clear Creek. The Clear Creek Cemetery Association formed in 2007 to perpetuate the care and preservation of the cemetery.