Acd to Local tradition,in the winter of 1859,23 yr old John Davis joined a community wagon train headed for work in the Pine forest of Bastrop cty.Davis,sprayed by a skunk during the night, began running wild thru the camp. He was mistaken for a comanche interder and shot to death.He father,Jenkins Davis, buried his son here on 2.3 acreas he purchased near Boggy Creek and his Manchaca Home. Johns burial is the earliest recorded here. In 1876 Jenkins davis a member of the ealry area Onion Creek masonic Lodge #220. Donated the 2.3 acreas to Lodge, and the site bacame a community Graveyard,first called Boggy Creek,Later Boggy Creek Masonic Cemetery.The Graveyard had become known as Masonic Cemetery by the 1960s. Finishe don 2nd Virtual.