This cemetery opened with the burial of Sarah Huffman (Mrs. A. W.) Perry in 1896. Nearby stood the Union Baptist Church on land given by A. W. Perry. On Feb. 18, 1897, he deeded land for the cemetery, the first burial ground associated with the town of Carrollton. After it opened, a few burials were brought from private sites and reinterred here. The Union Church land was added to the cemetery about 1911, after the church moved away. The Rev. John M. Myers, a son of Union's founding pastor, is buried here with his wife. Most of the 482 graves are for pioneer families.