Coleman County was organized in 1867, when this area was a wilderness of high grasses, pecan and live oak trees where deer, turkey, bear, and antelope roamed freely. Pioneers including John Thomas and Julia Gowens Hamilton, Julia's parents G.A. and Rachel Ann Berryman Gowens, and Rachel's father Benjamin Berryman and his family passed Coleman and chose to settle here. From the efforts of these settlers and their neighbors, the village of White Chapel grew. The earliest interment in this burial ground was Joseph Shipman, who died in 1884, and when land was deeded for a school that year, the cemetery was established on the same site. The school, cemetery, and community were known as White Chapel. The Rock Crusher School District was created in 1916 and included White Chapel District #44, but White Chapel voters rejected consolidation in 1917. The White Chapel Baptist Church was moved to the school grounds in 1930. In 1936 the Centennial High School District was formed and older grade levels were consolidated into the new organization. In 1951 all White Chapel students were consolidated into the Centennial District, and in 1952 the cemetery was granted a separate deed from the school. Family names represented in the cemetery include Berryman, Brooks, Collier, Fenton, Gowens, Jameson, Kelley, Hamilton, Nelson, Saunders, and Stacy. Three Civil War veterans and several members of the U.S. Armed Forces are interred here, and the cemetery remains a chronicle of the area's early settlers.