Frederick and Anna Cesinger brought their family to this area in 1891 and bought a 320-acre tract of land. Two years later they deeded 160 acres to their son George. In 1894, when George's sister Philipina died one month before her eighth birthday, he set aside one acre for a family burial ground. Those buried here include Cesinger and related family members and neighbors. Though the graveyard was owned and maintained from 1909 to 1928 by the German Evangelical Emmanuel Church in Needville, it was later returned to Cesinger heirs.