Settlers began arriving in this part of Limestone County in the 1850s, and soon the Mount Calm community developed with a Masonic Lodge, stores, post office, school, and churches. James Samuel Kimmel, a pioneer settler, donated land for this cemetery, and the first marked grave is dated 1870. In 1881, when the Texas and St. Louis Railway bypassed the village, residents moved north to the railroad line and began new Mount Calm in Hill County. The cemetery, which has been enlarged and is still in use, is all that remains of the earlier settlement.