In northwest Collingsworth County, the Dozier Cemetery took its name from Dozier Creek and a nearby cowboy camp at the creek's head. The area had been inhabited for thousands of years, as archeological evidence of prehistoric animals and Native Americans shows. The first pioneers settled there in the 1860s, and cattle ranching and farming soon helped the area grow as small rural communities with schools and businesses were established. The cemetery was established in 1893, when Mr. Elam (Elums), who lived in the Dozier area, died from tuberculosis and was buried on the west boundary of the Rocking Chaire Ranche on the R.W. Griswold survey. Soon afterward, Mr. Wallace, murdered over a grass lease payment, became the second burial there. The cemetery became the final resting place not only for people of the Dozier community but also for those from the neighboring communities of Abra, Enterprise, Lone Mound, Prairie View, and Samnorwood. Set atop a hill and surrounded for miles by gently rolling farm and ranch land, it includes tree rows along the east side and northwest corner from 1930s Works Progress Administration projects, grave markers ranging from small metal markers to sizable engraved granite markers, marked unknown burial plots, and grave covers of gravel, granite, and native soil. Funeral services for loved ones often bring people back to their roots in the Dozier area.