Following his service in the Civil War, Alabama native R.L. Cain came to Texas and settled in this area. In 1867, he deeded five acres to Lee County for a cemetery for the community then known as Cain School. After the settlement's name changed to Adina when its post office was established, the cemetery became known as the Adina Community Cemetery. Earlier known burials include the unmarked grave of an infant, the child of a family camping in the area, and Martha Cane Slaughter, who died in 1871. In 2001, six burials from the McDavid and Craddock families, originally in nearby Craddock Cemetery in Bastrop County, were reinterred here beside members of their extended families. The graves include William B. Craddock, one of many victims of the violence that plagued the area in the 1870s and 1880s. Maintained and operated by the Adina Cemetery Association, the graveyard includes burials of veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and its headstones preserve the stories of the early residents of Adina and surrounding communities.