The Black Jack Springs community, now called O'Quinn, was established by a group of Anglo and German families who had settled near the headwaters of the Black Jack branch of Buckner's Creek by 1840. Charles Luck provided land for the burial of his brother-in-law, Thomas H. Oeding, who died in 1867, and whose grave is the first marked one in the cemetery, which probably first served the Luck-Oeding family. The second known burial was Johann Wilhelm (Wil) Loessin, who died in 1869 after volunteering with his three brothers as U.S. Cavalrymen in the Civil War and contracting an illness while held as a prisoner of war at Camp Groce, Liendo Plantation, near Hempstead. In 1871, residents built Trinitatis Lutheran Church beside the cemetery on land formally deeded by N.W. Faison. Charles Luck donated tracts of land, including the original graveyard, and heirs of Johanetta Luck Froelich Schwartz added more land to what became Black Jack Springs Cemetery. Those buried there include soldiers, homesteaders, carpenter craftsmen, and the renowned German-Texan poet Johannes C.N. Romberg, and the names on the stones trace the lives of early county settlers and their descendants.