In 1853, Seth F. and Caroline M. Hazel deeded land to the trustees of Navidad Baptist Church and Cemetery. The cemetery served residents of the pioneer community of Lyons whether or not they belonged to Navidad Baptist Church. Lyons had been established by the 1840s on land originally granted to Kesiah Crier in 1831, but in the 1870s most of the community's businesses and residents moved north toward the new railroad town of Schulenburg, and Lyons soon ceased to exist, though some residents remained in the area. The oldest known burial in the cemetery dates to 1853. Many people buried there were early Texas pioneers, relatives of the Old Three Hundred, the first families Stephen F. Austin settled in Texas, and veterans of conflicts dating to the Texas Revolution. The cemetery remains an important reminder of the early town and chronicles the lives of area pioneers.