Soon after the Civil War ended in 1865, physician and lay preacher Thomas A. Ball and his wife, Nancy (Yeats), came to Denton County from Missouri and 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, and the first marked grave is that of William Garrison, who died in 1870. In 1880, the Wichita and 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 adopted the name Corinth Shiloh Cemetery. Early features include native sandstone markers and decorative mussel shells harvested from nearby creeks. Today, the cemetery chronicles the history of area settlers, and descendants and friends reunite for annual decoration days to clean and decorate the graves of those buried there.