The City of Weslaco, named for the W.E. Stewart Land Company, was founded in December 1919, and in 1921 the city established a cemetery here outside the original townsite. The first grave is that of Reuben W. Warren, who died in 1921. Also buried here are Weslaco city founders Edmond Cooper Couch (1876-1944) and Robert Lee Reeves (1871-1938). H.E. Bennett platted the burial ground in 1922 and platted an addition in 1926. Throughout the cemetery, grave markers indicate military service and fraternal organization membership, and the City of Weslaco maintains more than 6,000 gravesites here.