The Lutheran Church of Fountaindale was consecrated here on December 8, 1842, by pastor Solomon Sentman on land owned by Joseph and Isaac Baugher and previously owned by Daniel Sprenkle. The congregation had 55 members in 1842 and grew to 95 by late 1843. After a new Lutheran church was built at Fairfield in 1855, Fountaindale declined, and by 1859 its last known pastor, Henry Bishop, no longer reported it as one of his congregations. On April 7, 1871, the Fairfield church authorized the sale of the building and its contents. Many descendants of these early congregations still live in the area. The cemetery's earliest known burial was Daniel Sprenkle, a Revolutionary War veteran who died on November 6, 1821, which may be why the site was chosen for the church and cemetery. On July 3, 1863, a Confederate soldier died from wounds received at Gettysburg and was buried here. During the Civil War, church member Sandford Schroder, a local sawmill and tannery owner, was taken prisoner near here in October 1862 by Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry because of his uncomplimentary words toward them and was released in poor health at the end of the war. On Sunday, June 28, 1863, twenty five Confederate soldiers under Lieutenant John Chamberlayne of Pegram's Artillery entered the church during morning services and captured 20 horses, but when they tried to escape, Chamberlayne and six of his men were captured near the brick schoolhouse by the church by a detachment of Cole's Cavalry, Company C, under Lieutenant William Horner, and ten other Confederate soldiers were later captured near Fairfield by Fountaindale resident and Union Private Henry Turle of Company C, Cole's Cavalry.