This burial ground originally served the Corn Hill community, an early Williamson County settlement named by county judge John E. King for the fields of corn surrounding his home. By the 1880s, Corn Hill had a post office, businesses, churches, fraternal lodges, cotton gins, mills, a newspaper, and a school. The cemetery is on property owned by settlers Nicholas Land, who died in 1896, and Elizabeth Ann (Giles) Land, who died in 1911; in 1863 they buried his oldest son, John, here, establishing a family burial ground that they soon opened to neighboring families as well. At least 25 individuals were interred here before 1886, when the Salado Valley Cemetery Association purchased 4.1 acres from Nicholas and Elizabeth Land for cemetery use, with R.K. and Mary Lou Shaver, J.B. and Bell Shaver, and trustees G.B. Buchanan, W.P. Routon, and J.W. Robertson also involved in the transaction. In 1909, the Bartlett Western Railway bypassed Corn Hill, and the community of Jarrell was organized along the rail line, after which residents there also began using this burial ground. Its features include curbing, obelisks, interior fencing, vertical stones, grave slabs, and false crypts. Those buried here include veterans of foreign conflicts and members of the Knauth, Langenegger, and Schwertner families, German immigrants who were among the area's early settlers. The 1997 F5 Jarrell tornado, which caused the deaths of 27 people, damaged gravestones in the cemetery, and many were later repaired. Today, the Salado Valley Cemetery Association continues to care for the burial ground, linking early residents of Corn Hill with later people who have lived near Salado Creek in northern Williamson County.