FIRST Marked Grave in Shiloh Cemetery - Corinth, TX
N 33° 09.808 W 097° 03.961
14S E 680345 N 3671074
A Texas Historical Marker at Corinth Shiloh Cemetery, at the intersection of Swisher and Shady Shores Roads, Corinth, TX, indicates that William Garrison has the first marked grave in this cemetery, dated 1870.
Waymark Code: WMMTMC
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2014
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At the time the cemetery was established, it was called "Shiloh Cemetery," and the cemetery sign on the tabernacle retains that usage. So does Findagrave. In any event, Mr. Garrison's original grave marker is gone, but has been replaced with a modern red granite headstone, marked simply "William Garrison 1810 - 1870." The historical marker provides some background:
Physician and lay preacher Thomas A. Ball and his wife, Nancy (Yeats), came to Denton County from Missouri soon after the Civil War ended in 1865. They settled with their family on land that would become the community of Corinth.
The Ball family donated land already in use as a graveyard to the Primitive Baptist Church at Shiloh. The first marked grave is that of William Garrison (d. 1870). In 1880, the Wichita & Dallas Railway named the settlement Corinth. An additional land donation in 1953 enlarged the cemetery to 2.5 acres. The community called the burial ground Shiloh Cemetery for many years until a cemetery association formed in 1959 and members adopted the name Corinth Shiloh Cemetery.
Features of the early cemetery include native sandstone markers and decorative mussel shells harvested from nearby creeks. Today, Corinth Shiloh Cemetery chronicles the history of area settlers. Descendants and friends reunite for annual decoration days to clean and decorate the graves of those buried here.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1870
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