Shiloh Cemetery is the first recorded Cumberland Presbyterian cemetery in middle Alabama. Burials there began in 1820, a year before Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church organized in 1821 at Oakridge, now Leeds. The cemetery stood back from the public road that served as the stagecoach route from Montevallo to Ashville. The church remained at the site for years on land owned by the State of Alabama and set aside for educational purposes. About 1878, the state sold the land, and the church, which had operated a church school, moved. The City of Leeds maintains the cemetery, where burials date as late as 2006. Headstones bear the oldest names affiliated with the founding of Leeds, and the first sheriff of Shelby County is believed to be buried there in an unmarked grave. Some of the first families in Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby counties are among those buried at Shiloh.