In 1889, the Wylie Cemetery Company purchased several town lots totaling about five acres from the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad and established Wylie Cemetery. According to local history, the daughter of an indigent family was the first burial before the cemetery was completed. The earliest marked grave is that of Wylie Cemetery Company President William M. Housewright, who died in 1889 from pneumonia. Other Wylie Cemetery Company founders buried there include Dr. John F. Butler, Frank L. McCarty, and William Thomas Brown, as well as veterans from the Civil War to the Vietnam War. The Wylie Cemetery Association maintains this historic cemetery.