Nestled among giant oak and cedar trees, Providence Cemetery is situated beside Providence Baptist Church in the Providence Community off of Texas Farm Road 166 seven miles eat of the Burleson County seat of Caldwell.

The cemetery was established during the Texas Revolutionary era in 1836, and is one of the oldest sites in Texas.

Southern cotton planters created the cemetery during their expansion sestward into the fertile Brazon River "bottom" lands.  These lands had been routinely promoted by such land developers and entrepreneurs as Stephen F. Austin, who had surveyed the region in the late 1820's.

Texas' first large-scale, sustained cotton-plantation owners and their slaves also founded a temporary place of worship (called the Providence Meeting Place) on the site of the present-day Providence Baptist Church next to the cemetery.

However, the cemetery, as a final resting place for their decceased family member, workers and friends, was considered the first priority.  All were buried with due reverence without regard to their station in life.

Planters and saves alike also attended services at the Providence Baptist Church and in September, 1841, the congregation, under the leadership of it first deacon, James A. Prewitt,l formally organized the church.

Numbering only a dozen members in the earliest years, the congregation met three or four times a year for major events, as well as for a spring homecoming and reunion on the church grounds.

According to church history, James A. Prewitt and John Echols, one of the earliest settlers, were prominent leaders in the outgrowth and development of Providence Baptist Church.  They served as delegates to the Association Meeting on several occasions.  It was on such an occasion they were prevented from attending a meeting in Houston, Texas due to yellow fever outbreak.

In time, a frointier-style split-long hut was built for the first church.  Once in awhile when other communities required the pastor's counsel and comfort, slave preachers would teach and lead the congregation at providence.