The Kellogg-Comstock Cemetery likely served a single family, as many small eighteenth- and nineteenth-century burial grounds did. Its oldest marked grave dates to 1813, and most identified interments are related to Enos and Lydia Kellogg, early occupants of the homestead that once encompassed the cemetery grounds, although as many as 19 additional unmarked graves have been identified through ground-penetrating radar. The family prominently sited the cemetery on Ponus Avenue, an important eighteenth-century route between Norwalk, Canaan Parish, and Ridgefield that evolved from a seventeenth-century Native American trail associated with Ponus, a local sachem who sold large areas of land to European settlers around 1640. Little is known about the area's early history, but in the early eighteenth century the land was owned by Norwalk citizens living in town, and by the mid-1700s agriculture had intensified with the arrival of resident farmers from coastal Norwalk and Canaan Parish. Enos and Lydia Kellogg purchased the land in 1793 and thereafter lived in the neighboring farmhouse. Kellogg descendants married into the Comstock family, and the homestead remained in their hands until 1917. During the nineteenth century, as a thriving nursery business emerged in Norwalk and surrounding towns, the Comstock family operated a successful orchard and nursery on this land for several decades. By the mid-twentieth century, small-scale agricultural enterprises had fallen out of favor, and many farms, including the Kellogg-Comstock farm, were subdivided into suburban building lots.