Corinth Shiloh Cemetery

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. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003

Corinth Shiloh Cemetery is a historical marker in Denton, Denton County, dedicated in 2003. It is one of 110 historical markers documented in Denton County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 174 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 33.1632, -97.0650 near Denton. The nearest cataloged historic site is 1848 Denton County Seat (historical marker), about 1.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Eason-Gray Cemetery, Pagetown, and Denton State School Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5121013027. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.