Buried nearby are two kinsmen with notable roles in Southern history, John Bonum Lennard and his son-in-law, Minyard Hickerson Harriss. John Lennard was a member of the convention that withdrew Alabama from the Union in 1861. After losing two sons in the war for Southern Independence, he came to Texas. In 1867, John Lennard and L.R. Wortham deeded land for the first streets in the village of Woodland. After serving as a boy in the Alabama "Buttermilk Cavalry," Minyard Harriss followed and became the guiding spirit of Woodland. In 1891 he deeded land for nearby Shiloh Church. In 1911, as commander of the W.L. Moody camp of United Confederate Veterans, he organized the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Freestone County.