Early church histories state that the cemetery’s earliest burials were the remains of some of the community’s earliest settlers, who had been buried along Anchor Bay but had to be relocated to the cemetery’s southeast corner due to rising water levels.

There are more than 150 veterans buried here, including soldiers who served in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

In the 1830s, numerous Catholic settlers immigrated to the Anchor Bay area. Not before long land was donated and a church was constructed and later reconstructed after a fire.