This part of the ranch was first used as a family burial ground upon Charles death on June 22, 1870. According to tradition, the cemetery contains a number of unmarked slave graves. This property has remained in Saul Family ownership for well over a century. Near the gravesite of outlaw Sam Bass, one-half acre of old Round Rock Cemetery was set aside for slave burials. Enclosed by Cedar posts and barbed wire, sites are marked head and foot with large limestone rocks.
Some rocks are hand-grooved with names and dates.
White graves here are dated as early ad 1851. The first marked grave of a freed slave is dated 1880. Although there are 40 to 50 known burial sites of freedman and the burial ground is still in use, no interments of former slaves occurred after the turn of the century. Old Round Rock Cemetery, Sam Bass Rd. The earliest Anglo settlers of this area came to the vicinity in the 1840s.