After her husband’s death in Jamaica in 1879, Helen Fanny Harris Drummond returned with her children to England, then immigrated with them to the United States in 1885 and settled in Brazos County, Texas. In October 1891 she purchased 100 acres in Taylor County, including this site, from the Hammond family. By 1895 she had donated two acres for the Drummond cemetery, and the deed for the property was officially recorded in 1901. The earliest grave is believed to be that of an infant buried in 1892, and later that year the infant son of Joseph C. and Nannie Stewart Hammond died and was interred there in the earliest marked grave. Helen Drummond’s grave dates to 1896, and several of her descendants, as well as descendants of the Hammonds, are also interred there. Also notable is the gravesite of pioneer settler Martha Jones Hardin Heffernan, who died in 1918 and was living in the area by 1880. Enlarged in 1996, the burial ground is maintained by a cemetery association of community residents and family members and remains an important link between early area settlers and later generations.