Albert G. Williamson, a Dodge County entrepreneur, donated land for a burial place in the Orphans community after a neighbor’s child, George P.A. Barnes, died in 1887. The community took its name from the six orphaned Williamson brothers who moved there from North Carolina in 1873-74. The earliest burials were children of the Thomas, Weldy, and Lashley families, and other common names in the original acre include Hardy, Manley, Steele, Stuckey, and Williamson. Statuary above the mausoleum depicts A.G. and Martha Buchan Williamson and their nephew, Jay Gould.