Named for nearby Kiowa Creek, Kiowa Cemetery served residents of a community founded in the early 20th century by Russians of German descent whose families had begun settling in Russia in the mid-1700s during the rule of Catherine the Great. In 1910, several of these German-Russian families settled on Kiowa Creek south of Booker and soon established a Lutheran church whose charter members included the Meller, Bechthold, and Littau families, all represented in the burial ground. The first interment was Abraham Littau in 1912, and in 1916 Leonhard and Katherine Littau donated property for cemetery use. Today, descendants of those interred care for the burial ground.