Bear Creek Cemetery was developed adjacent to the site of Bear Creek Missionary Baptist Church, which was organized in 1853. The earliest marked grave is that of Hiram Jackson Farris, who died in 1858, the infant son of G.W. and Mary Farris. Isham Crowley, who lived from 1798 to 1878 and came to Texas as a member of the Peters Colony, donated the burial ground and deeded it to the church trustees in 1876. The congregation later moved to Dallas County and was renamed Western Heights Missionary Baptist Church. Still in use, Bear Creek Cemetery is the burial site of many eastern Tarrant County pioneers.