Resthaven Cemetery has served Quitaque since the 1920s, in a community whose roots reach back to a name possibly derived from Quitica Indians who passed through the area on a 1683-84 expedition with Juan Mendoza and Juan Sabeata and that may mean “the land at the end of the trail.” In 1865, José Piedad Tafoya opened a trading post in the area, and in 1877 George Baker established the Lazy F Ranch, later selling it to Charles Goodnight. A decade later, Quitaque became a stage stop, and in 1890 a general store opened; the next year, a post office was moved from the ranch to the store as residents began settling in the newly platted town. By 1903, a Methodist church had organized, and its 1908 building also served other denominations. Residents buried their dead in other area graveyards until 1922, when brothers Alvin and Edgar Howard donated ten acres for cemetery use. The first person interred there was Katie Daniel, who died in 1922. Others buried there include Amos Persons, who organized First National Bank and helped bring the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad to Quitaque, and Orlin and O.R. Stark, father and son, who succeeded Persons as bank presidents and were civic leaders. From 1938-40, the Work Projects Administration built a sandstone wall with spaced pilasters around the property, which also includes grave slabs, curbing, and religious iconography. Resthaven Cemetery remains a record of the early pioneers whose hard work and determination laid the foundation for the Quitaque community.