William Orenduff and his wife, Mary E. Orenduff, traveled by wagon train from Breckinridge County, Kentucky, in 1855 and settled in an area of Collin County later called the Trinity community because of its proximity to the East Fork of the Trinity River. In 1856, William purchased four tracts of land, including part of the Polly A. Boone survey, and first built log cabins until lumber could be hauled from Jefferson for a better house. During the Civil War, the property was a stop on Matt Slaughter's stage line between Dallas and Bonham, and Orenduff land was later used for the Trinity schoolhouse built in 1884. Mary Orenduff died in 1859 before the new house was completed, and her grave became the first marked burial in a community graveyard on the property. The graveyard, later known as Orenduff Cemetery, was officially deeded to the community in 1897 by John H. Orenduff, a son of William and Mary, with Jesse W. Orenduff, James F. Graves, and Jack A. Lewis as trustees. Another prominent early family buried there was that of Michael Mallow and his wife, Charlotte Gortner Mallow, who settled in the area in 1853, and fourteen Mallow graves are marked in the cemetery. The last known burial was George Moncier in 1964, and his son, Butch Moncier, is the only known World War II veteran buried there; other veterans buried there include Charles P. Carter from the Civil War and Michael Mallow from the War of 1812. A distinctive feature of the cemetery is a grieving chair carved from a tree stump, said to have been made for a mother who came daily to mourn the loss of her baby.