In the early days of Pilot Point, Lucinda Glasscock Skinner and Richard Skinner set aside a 2.44-acre tract for a cemetery. The first recorded burial was 5-year-old Josiah Taylor in March 1858, and his father, Josiah Sr., died the following July. Most of those buried there were of Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent and had come from Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee, and many were farmers or ranchers. Notable graves include J.D. Merchant, Sr., a local businessman who built the first brick building in the area. Several yellow fever victims were also buried there, including Prissie and Sarah Wilson, sisters who died within 2 months of one another during the epidemic of 1872 and 1873. Two people named James Graham, born on the same date two years apart, died on the same September day in 1867. Lucinda Skinner, the last charter member of the Pilot Point First Baptist Church, died in 1890. By 1900, the cemetery probably contained 200 graves. John Skinner sold the land to the Skinner Cemetery Association in 1905, and the last recorded burial was Joe Mylo Phipps, an infant who died in 1928. The cemetery remains a vital link to the early settlers of the Pilot Point community.