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Location:
The Shiloh Cemetery is located in northwest San Saba County in the community of Shiloh about five miles north of Richland Springs. The cemetery is situated about a stone’s throw to the south of the intersection of CR 229 and CR 246.
GPS: Latitude: 31. 3319o N Longitude: 98. 9118o W
Direction: From the town of Richland Springs off of U. S. Highway 190
Condition:
The Shiloh community, once known as Pumpkin Center, was established in the mid 1880’s. The date of the first burial in the community cemetery is not known since most of the graves are marked only with native sandstone rocks without inscriptions. The oldest extant gravestone with an inscription is that of an infant who died in 1892. Apparently the plot was abandoned as a burial ground in the late 1920’s and has been neglected over the past seventy or more years. On a first attempt to inventory this cemetery in 2008 it was found to be completely consumed by tall grass, cacti, thorn bushes, tangled briars and mesquite brush. However, in December of 2009, Steve Brown, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Brown, with the help of neighbor Roy Shannon, cleared the cemetery of briars, tall grass and underbrush. Steve Brown then did an inventory of gravesites complete with photographs of all tombstones and grave markers. A report of his work is available for study in the history section of the Rylander Memorial Library in San Saba, Texas.