John Robin Heard, who lived from 1794 to 1866, donated land for this one-acre family cemetery three and a half miles south. He came to Texas in 1853 and founded the nearby town of Cussetta. The first burial occurred in 1861 after the death of his grandson Cornelius Floyd, who was born in 1859. The twenty-three graves include those of Heard and his second wife, Mary Hopkins Heard, who lived from 1806 to 1863. The cemetery fence was provided by another of Heard’s grandsons, W.Q. Henderson, who lived from 1858 to 1934. In 1974, descendants formed a cemetery association and organized a perpetual care trust fund.