Community founder A. B. Fraser, a Confederate soldier who chose exile in Central America rather than declare allegiance to the Union, and his family returned to the U. S. in 1872, settled in Fort Worth, and moved a few miles west in 1876. Fraser established a store and freight station near Weatherford and named the station for his daughter Anneta, who had been born in Honduras. When the Texas and Pacific Railroad built tracks through the area in 1880, it adapted the Fraser name to Annetta. Although the site likely had been used as a burial ground for several years before Edgar M. King was interred there in September 1882, his is the earliest tombstone on the site, and he was the first of many of his family to be buried there. Thirty-five infants' graves date from 1882 to 1910, reflecting the harsh conditions of pioneer life. Those buried there included civic and church leaders, educators, politicians, farmers, ranchers, merchants, and manufacturers, with the Bell, Bledsoe, Chapman, Chew, Duncan, Nichols, Otto, and Winslow families prominently represented among others who built the Annetta community. One burial is that of a veteran of the Civil War, and other graves are those of veterans of several major United States and international wars and conflicts. More than 935 graves were counted in 1998, and the cemetery, along with fading railroad tracks, remains as a record of the pioneers of the Annetta community.