Originally known as Winchester Colored Cemetery, Shiloh Cemetery has served the black community of Winchester and its vicinity since the community bought it in 1890 during the town's boom period. Its 3.6 acres abut the east boundary of the Winchester Public Cemetery for whites, with a potter's field at the back and an area to the east said to be for World War I soldiers. The first known burials are those of newborns Hattie and Roysten Penn in December 1890. After the original access road through the white cemetery was fenced off after World War II, the only access became a dirt drive on adjacent property. Because visitors then had difficulty finding it, the cemetery's name was changed in the 1980s to Shiloh for the Baptist and Methodist churches that used it. Most graves were marked with unusual rocks, tree plantings, homemade cement markers, and, in the mid-1900s, small metal frames with plastic cards, though finer granite headstones were added in recent decades. As the population declined, so did the cemetery, but Shiloh Baptist Church saved it and in 2007, during the church's own 140th anniversary, held a ceremony there to honor black veterans who had been denied military honors at their burials, adding a flagpole for the occasion. Those buried there include formerly enslaved people; early Shiloh Baptist members Willis and Louvina Taylor; Edward D. Threadgill, a co-appointee of Governor J. Hogg; Emil Ware, Senior, father of Lieutenant William D. Ware, who received the Distinguished Service Cross in Korea; Arizona Armstrong, mother of Private First Class Willie Lee Page, who received the Silver Star at Iwo Jima; the Reverends Noyal Moore and Dorothy Finch of Shiloh Methodist Church; and Leon Beasley, caretaker and authority on Shiloh Cemetery.