Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery grew out of the founding of Immanuel Lutheran Church of La Vernia in 1901, when the mostly German-descended congregation soon needed a burial ground. In 1902, Gustav and Bertha Schroeder donated two acres to the church for a cemetery, and members built a fence and formally dedicated it. The first burial was Gabriele Hedwig Koepp, infant daughter of Franz and Augusta Koepp, in October 1902. The cemetery also contains graves of early community and church leaders and military veterans from conflicts dating to World War I. Beginning in the 1960s, donations of additional land enlarged the cemetery, and the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery Association, founded in 1980, has remained active in maintaining and caring for it. With its German inscriptions, vertical stones, and curbed plots, the cemetery remains an important link to the history and culture of the area.