William and Nancy Kirk Love and their children were the earliest settlers near King's Fort, establishing themselves there in January 1845. Their son, Robert H. Love, is believed to have been the first person interred on this site after his death in March 1849. When the Loves sold the surrounding land in 1849, they set aside a quarter acre as a graveyard. Nancy Love died in 1850 and William Love in 1851, and both are thought to be buried here in unmarked graves. Also buried here are other early Kaufman County settlers, including T. J. Johnson, believed to have been the son of an African American couple who worked for the Love family; J. D. Ballew, a farmer and onetime county treasurer; Ann Burge, who may have died from complications in childbirth; Amanda Murphy Hendley, a member of a prominent pioneer family; James S. Laroe, who came to Texas from New Jersey in 1846 and brought his family here in 1851, and whose diary of the land, wildlife, and people of the area provides a valuable firsthand account of the period; his grandson Alfred Laroe; Martha Jane Rayel, the daughter of an early Kaufman County sheriff; and Anna Love Campbell, after whose remarriage to James M. Carter several members of the Carter family are believed to be buried here as well. The cemetery stands as a chronicle of Texas history.