Several Swedish immigrants who had settled in the Hutto area established the Swedish Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1892. In 1894, a tornado destroyed the first sanctuary built by members on Short Street. After using a second church building for several years, the congregation moved to East Live Oak and Church Streets in 1902, and the following year purchased this site for a church cemetery. It is believed the first marked graves, dating as early as 1897, are those of children whose remains were exhumed and reinterred at the new cemetery. The first adult buried here was Johannes Anderson, who died in 1903. Several unmarked graves are believed to be those of children. The cemetery also contains graves of military veterans and tombstone symbols reflecting Masonic and Woodmen of the World affiliations. Today, the cemetery is maintained by a church committee that conducts special events and raises funds for upkeep, and it remains a link to the area's early Swedish settlers, their families, and their church.