The first burial in this graveyard was Wilhelm Wolf in 1891, two years after the German Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel Congregation was formally organized. The Rev. H.F. Daude, who served as the first pastor, deeded land here in 1893 for the church, school, and cemetery. Members of the congregation, now known as Immanuel Lutheran, continue to use the graveyard even though the church relocated to another site in the early 1940s. German appears on many of the tombstones, reflecting part of the area's German heritage.