Plemons was settled about 1898 when area rancher James A. Whittenburg built a dugout house on a hill overlooking a bend in the Canadian River about seven miles northeast of this site. Named for Barney Plemons, son of Amarillo judge and State Legislator William Buford Plemons, the town became the Hutchinson County seat when the county was organized in Spring 1901, and E. E. Akers contracted that year to build a brick courthouse. According to local oral history, Mrs. E. E. Akers was probably the first person interred in Plemons Cemetery, likely in 1902. Plemons grew slowly as a river crossing town, and by 1905 a wagon yard, barbershop, doctor's office, drugstore, and mercantile store served about fifteen families. Former buffalo hunter, scout, and Hutchinson County's first sheriff William Billy Dixon and his family operated a hotel for three years. In 1926 the Amarillo branch of the Rock Island Line was completed through the area but stopped in Stinnett rather than Plemons; voters then chose Stinnett as the new county seat, and Plemons gradually declined, though the county oil boom sustained it for another two decades. The last burial in Plemons Cemetery, which contains 66 graves, was Charles Ray Sessions in 1953. In 1987 local Boy Scouts' preservation efforts uncovered a sandstone grave marker reading "Mrs. E. E. A.," strongly supporting the oral history that Mrs. Akers was the first person interred there, and the cemetery preserves the story of early Hutchinson County history.