Settlement by African Americas in what is now the Lake Como Community began between 1907 and 1908. In an era when burial grounds for African Americans were limited, it is our understanding that the history of burials in Como were not recorded and passed down. Therefore no information on early funerals is available to us. Lake Como Cemetery was said to be established in 1925 by Rev. George Washington Burton II of Zion Missionary Baptist Church. As one of the early interred in the newly established community cemetery, Reverend G. W. Burton has a prominent family plot with four headstones. The cemetery is on a three-acre tract at the corner of Helmick and Halloran in Como, the historically African-American Neighborhood on the west side of Fort Worth. There are no official burial records. However, historic reports estimate at least 300 to 500 interments, although the total number is unknown since most of the burials are unmarked.

The Como Alumni Club, Inc. donated the wrought iron arch over the entrance in 1987. There have been multiple efforts over the decades to maintain the cemetery. The Zion Missionary Baptist Church representative and the appointed President of the Lake Como Cemetery Association who conducted funerals at the cemetery passed away in the late 1990s, which reduced the frequency of burials. The Como Neighborhood Advisory Council reactivated the Lake Como Cemetery Association in 2016, and the first burial in 10 years at the cemetery occurred in 2020.

The cemetery association is working to revitalize the cemetery and develop a Restoration and Preservation Master Plan and was awarded Texas Historical Cemetery Designation in 2019 and was awarded the Historical Marker in summer 2023.

The mounting of that Historic Marker’s dedication ceremony is planned for upcoming early 2024.