This cemetery has had multiple names, most recently “Redeemer United Church of Christ Cemetery,” and it has also been known as “Zion Cemetery,” “German Cemetery,” “The German Zion Evangelical Church Cemetery,” and “Little Sussex Cemetery.” Sussex Zion Evangelical Church started on October 25, 1888. At the annual January 1890 church meeting, August Mindemann gave one-quarter acre of land for a church burial spot. The first burial was Lillie Alma Walter, daughter of Franz Walter and Caroline Brandt. Lillie was born April 24, 1889, died March 28, 1890, and was interred March 31, 1890.