In the 1890s, John Allebaugh Bowman led 19 people from Missouri to Tarrant County on a three-week journey and, after he and his brother Frederick Kline Bowman established adjoining properties midway between Haslet and Saginaw, John founded the Saginaw Cemetery Association to serve nearby residents. The association incorporated in 1899 under Texas law with trustees R.A. Barrow, S.A. Shelton, J. A. Bowman, Anderson Hunter, and H. L. Pierce. John Allebaugh Bowman's son John David was the first person buried there on February 19, 1899, and within the next six months John A., his wife Susanna, and their other son Roscoe also died and were interred there, leaving nine young Bowman orphans. At that time family plots sold for $5.00 each and individual spaces for $2.00. In 1900, W. L. Tate signed the deed for the cemetery to H. L. Pierce for $50.00, for a tract measuring 300 by 200 feet from the southwest corner of the church and school lot. The first fence was erected in March 1901, and in July 1902 lots 132, 133, 150, and 151 were reserved as a potters field. A Mr. Worthington became the first paid caretaker in July 1903, receiving $2.00 each time he cleaned and cared for the entire graveyard. Around 1910, the cemetery expanded west to its current boundaries, and its two sections can be distinguished by different grid systems. Most gravestones are limestone, granite, and concrete, some family plots have concrete curbing, military veterans from World War I to the present are buried there, and although most early records were destroyed in a 1925 fire, the cemetery remains a chronicle of the community and its people.