Germans settled this area of North Harris County in the 1850s, when it was first known as Stuebner. Adolph Stuebner served as postmaster from 1885 until mail service was transferred to Hufsmith in 1911. The International & Great Northern Railroad founded Hufsmith in 1902 on property conveyed by the Bogs, King, and Silas families, naming it for company executive Frank Hufsmith. A post office was established when the railroad arrived, with Henry L. Mueller as the first postmaster and Fred C. Bogs serving from 1912 to 1951; all three postmasters are buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery. The cemetery began in 1873 as a family burial ground after the death of one-year-old Bertha Mueller, daughter of Juliane and Wilhelm Mueller, and it soon received additional Mueller and Stuebner burials. It was later known as Mueller-Stuebner Cemetery, Stuebner Cemetery, and Hufsmith Lutheran Cemetery. In 1905, the Muellers, the Stuebners, and other Hufsmith-area families organized the Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church under Pastor G.W. Fischer, and in 1907 Henry and Mary Mueller donated about three acres, including the existing cemetery, to the church's trustees. Many grave markers reflect birth in Germany and bear German inscriptions, and those buried there include veterans of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. After Zion Lutheran Church outgrew its 1907 building and relocated to Tomball in 1959, the church continued to care for the cemetery.