Trickham was originally a saloon stop over on one of John Chilsolm's cattle trails. Established in the early 1860's under the name Muke Water from the local creek, it was renamed "Trick'em" after the one-room frame store/saloon where the local proprietor, Bill Franks, would get the cowboys drunk and trick'em out of their money. There was an army post nearby to protect the settlers from the Comanches, who killed at least six of them earlier. The Post Office refused to register the name and offered the more polite English Trickham as a substitute. Of course, in central Texas they sound the same. The Post Office was active from April 16, 1879 until July 31, 1958. The first and oldest rural schoolhouse in Coleman County still stands, and is used as a rural senior citizens center. Trickham was known for its barbershop quartets, and had one of the first electric co-ops in the state. There is much natural gas, but little oil there, though the first well was found in 1915. See The Texas Handbook for more details.
The cememtery contains the unmarked graves of some of the cowhands and the following: Bailey, Banister, Bobo, Cole, Dean, Fiveash, Goodgion, Laughlin, Luswell, McCain, McClatchey, Martin, Mullis, Reager, Stacy, Tankersley, Vaughn.

Submitted by: Joe Bailey Cole