The area of the Kisiniai ethnographic cemetery approximates 2,310 square metres, containing about 100 graves. It is assumed that burials in this cemetery were held as early as the beginning of the 19th century. The oldest tombstone cross dates back to 1831, but it is believed that the burials in the cemetery started earlier. Johann Ferdinand Kelch (1801–1887), a pioneer of Lithuanian journalism and the speaker who condemned the Germanisation of Prussian Lithuanians, is buried in the Kisiniai village cemetery. When the Lithuanian language was removed from schools in 1872–1876, he sent petitions to the King of Prussia and German Emperor Wilhelm I and the Minister of Education and Culture, requesting that at least religion be taught in schools in the Lithuanian language.
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