The Stockton family cemetery occupies land from an 1859 grant by Texas Governor Hardin R. Runnels to Moses Allen, a veteran of the Siege of Bexar. Douglas Hayden Stockton and his wife Mary Elizabeth White Stockton brought their family to Bell County in 1870 and, with J.O. Darby, bought more than 1,200 acres of the Allen grant, soon building a residence near this site. The cemetery was established in April 1890 after the death of their fifteen-year-old son, Simion Carothers Stockton, and on December 15, 1908, Douglas and Mary Elizabeth Stockton legally designated the property as a family cemetery. Still used by Stockton descendants, it contains more than eighty graves and preserves more than a century of family history, including the burials of Douglas and Mary Elizabeth Stockton, twelve of their fourteen children, Ead White, a former slave who remained with the family after the Civil War, numerous children and infants, and three family members who drowned in a hurricane in Corpus Christi in 1919.