Old Shiloh Cemetery

Shiloh Methodist Church, the second oldest Methodist church in Tattnall County, was organized circa 1810 by Rev. William Eason and remained at this site until the 1850’s, when it was moved a short distance north. Unlike other churches in the area at the time, a cemetery was maintained beside the meeting house. Six generations of area residents are buried here in what was likely the first public cemetery in Tattnall County. Those buried include pioneer Michael McKenzie Mattox, Methodist ministers, Confederate veterans, state elected officials, and numerous other whites and blacks, both free and enslaved. The last burial occurred in 1942.

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