Contributed by: Bobby Sharp
Directions: 3 miles south of Kirvin, on 950 just east of FM 80.
Historical Marker: Matthews and Robert Shanks of Alabama settled here with their families in 1859. A small farming community developed, and in 1870 a school was built on a one-acre site donated by R. C. Murray. Land beside the schoolyard became a public burial ground, known as Shanks Cemetery after Shanks Post Office opened in 1896. the earliest recorded burial was Burgess A. Whatley (1854-1892). In 1893 G. W. Bell deeded another half acre east of the graveyard. The school building was torn down in 1917. Shanks Cemetery Association has maintained the site since 1935.
The following information was submitted by This is not a complete listing for this cemetery.
| Simmons, Andrew
H. hus of Fannie |
1940 | |
| Simmons, Fannie wife of Andrew Simmons |
1935 | |
| Jett, Marshall
I. hus of Lucy C. Simmons b. July 1, 1882 |
Dec 1878 | Jan 1944 |
| Jett, Robert J. | Feb 14, 1904 | Nov 23, 1962 |
| Day, Wiley
Warren hus of Ola E. Simmon |
Jan 18, 1884 | Feb 28, 1972 |
| Day, Ola E.
(Simmon) wife of Wiley Warren |
May 30, 1888 | Sept 23, 1968 |
| Day, John
Mitchel hus of Mattie (Whitten) Day |
June 10, 1848 | Jan 10, 1940 |
| Day, Mattie
(Whitten) wife of John Mitchel Day |
Dec 19, 1852 | Feb 10, 1920 |
| Sharp, Joe Lincoln | Feb 6, 1906 | Dec 13, 1982 |
| King, Robert | 1883 | 1951 |
| Dickens, N. E. buried with Honors from the Veteran's Administration |
June 4, 1986 | |
| Quarles, John T. | 1851 | 1912 |
| Quarles, Martha E. | 1855 | 1940 |
| Rouse, John I. | June 24, 1909 | |
| Rouse, Grace H. | Oct 13, 1913 | Feb 14, 1994 |
| Sharp, Claude B. | Aug 30, 1904 | Nov 1, 1980 |
| Sharp, Alma I. | Mar 5. 1909 | Jan 6, 1981 |
| Sharp, Haroldean Son of Claude B. & Alma I. Sharp |
Feb 8, 1929 | Sept 18, 2000 |
| Sharp, Shirley J. | Oct 9, 1935 | Jan 26, 1982 |
| Sharp, Benjamin F. | Sept 13, 1860 | May 13, 1940 |
| Sharp, Loucinda C. | Mar 10, 1873 | Jan 24, 1912 |
| Sharp, Velma | May 25, 1903 | Sept 25, 1903 |
| Sharp, Fred | Jan 20, 1908 | Feb 9, 1908 |
| Sharp, Henrietta | Nov 12, 1864 | June 7, 1899 |
| Powell, Dora Day | Oct 1862 | Mar 17, 1958 |
| Keys, James
Henry Contributed by Janie Moncrief Blevins |
Jan 9, 1879 | Apr 11, 1945 |
| Foote, Cora Edna Contributed by Janie Moncrief Blevins |
Feb 5, 1881 | May 16, 1957 |
| Emmons, Richard
Raymond, Sr. hus of Mary Zue (Keys) Emmons Contributed by Janie Moncrief Blevins |
July 22, 1909 | Jan 22, 2003 |
| Emmons, Mary Zue
(Keys) wife of Richard Raymond Emmons, Sr. Contributed by Janie Moncrief Blevins |
June 21, 1911 | Sept 16, 1959 |
| Weaver, Walter
R. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1869 | 1941 |
| Weaver,
Henryetta Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1873 | 1966 |
| Weaver, Walter
J. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1901 | 1943 |
| Clark, Vernon Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1904 | 1989 |
| Clark, Ophelia
J. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1909 | 1999 |
| Weaver, William
E. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1912 | 1997 |
| Weaver,
Elizabeth Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1912 | 1998 |
| Weaver, Elmer L. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1937 | 1937 |
| Weaver, Walter
E. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1939 | 1956 |
| Pierce, John W. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1864 | 1942 |
| Roy, Helen V. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1880 | 1964 |
| Pierce, William
M. Contributed by JoAnn McBride |
1902 | 1975 |
| Goolsby, James
Bird born in Campbell Co., GA, died in Kirvin, Freestone Co., TX Contributed by Carl, Hawthorne FL There may be other goolsby buried here but this is the only one that I am sure of. * |
Mar 31, 1858 | Sept 5, 1948 |
| FREEMAN, Thomas Charles "Jake", Sr. hus of Cora Bell Freeman son of Joseph Earl & Nina Ruth (Goolsby) Freeman |
Mar 19, 1925 | Feb 4, 2008 |
* Sources for James Bird Goolsby
1. Fina Allen (Newsome) Slack, my grandmother and J. B. Goolsbys
neice, attended the funeral.
2. "The Goolsby/Conley Connection" by Mack Mullins @1980