The graves of early pioneers, Charles and Harriett Kingston and John and Emily Mayes, are located in the cemetery.

Consequently, the government embarked on a program to encourage new immigrants to settle in Queensland from overseas, by giving them a land order when they arrived.

In 1868 James Trahey purchased a block of land where the Kingston railway station would eventually be located.

The family moved around the Brisbane area several times, including to Redbank, Oxley and Eight Mile Plains before settling on land near Scrubby Creek which Kingston had purchased in 1872.

John Mayes and his family also moved to the Scrubby Creek area from England around the same time as the Kingstons.

Both the Kingston and the Mayes families were involved in fruit growing, particularly grapes, and the area became known to produce excellent wines before the 1900s.

Eight years later, in 1885 a rail service from Loganlea to Stanley Street in Brisbane was opened, the tracks passed through Charles Kingston's property.

John, Emily and their two small children arrived in Australia as free settlers on 9 July 1871 from England aboard the Indus.

The Mayes' lease was subject to conditions requiring improvements under the provisions of the Crown Lands Alienation Act (1868).

Emily married John's brother Richard and moved to Mooloolah; however, following her death in 1933, she was buried in the Kingston Pioneer Cemetery.

[1] In the larger cemetery, which measures approximately 18 by 30 metres (59 by 98 ft), there are eleven graves, five of which are multiple burials.

The cemetery is on a grassed area surrounded by a timber slip rail fence with an entrance gate along the eastern boundary.

[1] Kingston Pioneer Cemetery was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 May 2000 having satisfied the following criteria.

It is significant for its association with the Kingston, Mayes and Armstrong families who contributed to the settlement and growth of the Logan area, particularly from the 1870s through to the mid-1940s.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.