Since our cleanup of Shiloh Cemetery, north of Richland Springs, Texas, some local residents have taken up the cause of caring for this cemetery. Tom and Ann Alston have donated an entrance sign for Shiloh Cemetery. Ann is the President of the Richland Springs Preservation Society, and their group has taken an interest in helping to maintain this long neglected cemetery! Other local residents have helped install a metal rail to assist climbing the fairly steep grade from the dirt, county road to the cemetery, giving it a proper entrance.
According to a newspaper article from the San Saba News and Star, dated April 8, 1999, on May 18, 1998, The Texas State Historical Commission officially declared Shiloh Cemetery a Historic Texas Cemetery. This application was submitted by Maurene Richmon Smith of Lometa, Texas. She is the granddaughter of William Andrew Nicholson, who passed on in 1899 and is buried at Shiloh Cemetery.
We continue to research those who are known to rest at Shiloh and hope to have a new book available in the near future.
Thanks to several local residents in the Richland Springs area, this cemetery is now getting the care that it deserves as a holy resting place for many of the early settlers of the area.
