This cemetery is located on Ross Road, about one mile southwest of the small town of Ross, and is about a quarter mile east of White Rock Creek, in northern McLennan County. By about 1855 there was a small community located there, with a very small school house. The cemetery is said to have started informally when a stranger traveling by wagon was found dead. An Elizabeth A. Bennett was the second person buried there; she died on August 8, 1856. The community of Ross was started in 1881 when the Kansas-Texas Railroad built through McLennan County and established a station called Ross, in honor of Lawrence Silverman Ross. The churches and businesses of White Rock soon moved to Ross. Source: The Central Texas Genealogical Society, Cemetery Book Volume 7.