It was here that Charles Sherwood and Elizabeth Smith Holland, their children and slaves in 1847. "Ole Ann" was midwife to his children and Pound and others, including the Jones family, who were slaves to the Hollands were still in the community in the twenties. Holland had left a plantation in South Carolina, traveled to Mississippi and Alabama and finally to Texas where he first settled in Jasper County. He founght under Andrew Jackson in 1812 and was JP, state representative adn sheriff in Jackson County Mississippi 1824-43. Once he moved to Jefferson, later Hardin, County he started a vegetable garden that eventually became the cemetery. He farmed about 200 acres and raised longhorns and wild hogs on the free range and went to Beaumont once a year to buy sugar and flour by the barrel. They raised seven boys and two girls. This cemetery holds many of that family and slaves, Overstreet, Williams, McNeely, Weatherford, Williford, Carter, Cotton, Collins, Loften, Flowers and Spell.