Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery

German immigrants settled in this area in the 1840s, and the community first called Big Cypress was later renamed to honor pioneer settler Adam Klein. Trinity Lutheran Cemetery reflects the German heritage of this part of Harris County. During a diphtheria epidemic in 1872, three children of the Klein community died: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kaiser buried their two-year-old son beneath an oak tree on their farm, and soon afterward children of the Adam Klein and Conrad Krimmel families also died of the disease and were buried beside the Kaiser child. In 1875, the small cemetery became a community burial ground when the Kaiser family deeded the one-acre plot to Trinity Lutheran Church, and later land acquisitions expanded it to 4.5 acres. The oldest gravestone still standing dates to 1879. Among the pioneers buried there are five charter members of Trinity Lutheran Church: Adam Klein, Sr. (1826-1891), Henry Kaiser (1825-1892), Heinrich Bernshausen (1822-1892), Johannes Brill (1833-1905), and Jacob Theiss (1826-1912). Many of the tombstones bear German inscriptions.

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