Transcribed and submitted by Linda Houck
Shiloh Baptist Cemetery, located behind the Shiloh Baptist Church, which is just off Farm to Market Road 908. This is / was a cemetery and church for people of color.
There are many unmarked graves in the cemetery and many people buried here, who lived to be an advanced age. Most markers are homemade.
Baby grave, metal marker, not readable
Mary Janette Richmond
March 11, 1966 - Feb. 13, 1981
Several unmarked graves
Lucy Buttler
July 15, 1861 - Jan. 25, 1953
Rev. Harry Mile
Nov. 16, 1904 - Aug. 23, 1987
Saran Jackson
No date
Leesa Moore
No date
Several unmarked graves
Jessie Lee Douglas
TX STM1 US Navy, WW II
Jan. 15, 1924 - Nov. 11, 1973
Unmarked graves
L. D. Moore
US Army WW II
Aug. 28, 1909 - Aug. 27, 1998
Several unmarked/or unreadable graves/stones
Double stone for Benson
Robert & Eliza no dates
Unreadable headstone
Double stone for Gates
Rev. S. L. [no dates] & Ollie F. ~ 1880 – 1978
Rev. Riley Williams
Jan. 6, 1812 – Jan. 7, 1912
Harriet, wife of Rev. Riley Williams
1827 – April [rest in dirt]
Sam Mack, Jr.
PFC Army WWII
March 26, 19?? – April 14, 1982
Thular Merida
Sept. 7, 1889 – Aug. 10, 1979
Walter Merida
Feb. 7, 1887 – July 8, 1973
Roseanna Davis
March 5, 1904 – Nov. 18, 1972
Fellie B. Haynes
Nov. 8, 1915 – Dec. 7, 1966
Squar Newton
No dates
Agnes Newton
No dates
Buck Newton
March 10, 1903 – July 14, 1981
Bettie Batiste
Died Jan. 20, 1963, aged 11yr? [hard to read]
Several unmarked graves
James Batiste, Jr.
July 27, 1928 – March 10, 1989
Ike Newton
No dates
Silva Newton
No dates
Will Newton
Died March 1, 1959, aged 74
Lender Veron James Batiste
Died Jan. 4, 1963, age 1y, 7m, 18d
Ike Raymond Newton, Jr.
Sept. 4, 1952 – May ?, 1991
Charles Newton
April 30, 1914 – Oct. 8, 1993
Several unmarked graves
Vassor Newton
Jan. 15, 1906 – Feb. 22, 1997
Viola Middleton
Nov. 23, 1894 – June 1, 1924
Alfred Douglass, Sr.
Oct. 1, 1869 – Aug. 23, 1914
Olevia Douglass
March 12, 1870 – March 20, 1971
Tempe Moore
Feb. 10, 1874 – May 20, 1974
Prince Williams, Jr.
Jan. 10, 1912 – Nov. 19, 1968
Lillie Lee [last name?]
March 8, 1915 [birth? – death?]
Several unmarked graves
Jessie E. Ward
1884 – Dec. 28, 1976
Robert E. McBride
Stone hidden in ground
Double stone for Jones
Mabel Powell Jones, April 26, 1901 – May 5, 1983
Rufus Sr., May 13, 1900 – March 14, 1987
Rhoba Jones
June 1876 – Nov. 16, 1960
Horace Howard Rivers
Aug. 21, 1931 – Sept. 11, 1991
Age 60 y
Mrs. Nettle Townsend
June 4, 1895 – Dec. 3, 1997
Henry Townsend
CPL US Army, WWI
Nov. 16, 1888 – June 20, 1984
Rev. J. P. Williams
Feb. 28, 1885 – Oct. 20, 1978
Mary Colouitt
March 19, 1879 – Nov. 23, 1977
Willie Butler
May 24, 1892 – May 5, 1993
Sellie Butler
Jan. 15, 1887 – May 15, 1970
Leroy Butler
1931 – 1965
L. W. ? [last name?]
Dec. 1927 [born? died?]
Jerry Williams
June 11, 1908 – Jan. 13, 1986
Ada Watson Mathews
1893 – 1983
J. E. Townslee
Dec. 27, 1912 [born? died?]
F. W. Williams
Jan. 1, 1912 – Jan.10, 1913
Several unmarked graves
CTO on marker, can’t read anything else.
More unmarked graves.
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