The earliest marked graves on this site were those of infant Peter Goerlitz and two-year-old Emma Goerlitz. The property was primarily a family cemetery until 1893, when Peter Kellermier deeded one acre for burial purposes. The cemetery was long associated with the Catholic church on its north side and was known as the Catholic Cemetery. As the church declined in the early 1930s, the site became known as the Goerlitz Cemetery because of the number of family members interred there. In 1975, the name was changed to Three Oaks to better represent all those interred there. The cemetery is thought to contain unmarked graves and lost headstones, and veterans of World War I and World War II are also interred there. Three Oaks Cemetery continues to serve the surrounding area.