Olive Branch Cemetery was established in 1874 on Rd. 5A after Wm. Cromwell donated the land to the Olive Branch Class of the Methodist Evangelical Church, which stood directly across the road. The congregation’s frame church building was later moved to the Ralph Jennings farm on Rd. P, where it was repurposed as a barn. A new brick church was built in 1897 just north at Rd. 5A and Rd. P, but it was torn down in 1927 and its materials were used to construct the Lutheran Church in Deshler. In 1917, Olive Branch was included in The Union Cemeteries of McClure and Damascus Township.