At the turn of the twentieth century, Henrietta King of the King Ranch and other ranchers helped bring the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway through the area to Brownsville in 1904 to improve cattle marketing and transportation, and railway headquarters were established in the new town of Kingsville. Mrs. King and her son-in-law, Robert J. Kleberg, then formed the Kingsville Town and Improvement Company to sell ranch land in and around the new townsite. In 1908, the Kingsville Cemetery Association bought a forty-acre tract from the company, including part of a property that already contained many earlier burials, and in April 1909 a cemetery opened there bearing the name of Henrietta King's father, Hiram Chamberlain, a noted minister who organized the first Protestant church on the southern Rio Grande. Charles H. Flato, president of the Cemetery Association, sold lots through the Kingsville Hardware Company, and Clyde M. Allen, a Kingsville merchant, served without pay as the cemetery's manager for the next fifty years. After Henrietta King's death in 1925, she was buried there, and later that year Captain King and a son and daughter were moved from their original burial places in San Antonio to the King family plot. Others buried there include Uriah Lott, a builder of railroads across central and south Texas, Robert Bartow Cousins, the first president of South Texas State Teachers College, later Texas A&I University, and H. H. Kendall, the engineer of the first St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway train to pull through Kingsville. The cemetery reflects the history of the community and continues to serve Kingsville and the surrounding area.