Alto, TX, United States
Shiloh Methodist Church and Cemetery. The burial of a child, James W. Rozelle, was allowed on this wooded rise in 1850 by land owners Edwin and Martha Harry. In 1854 the Harrys allotted one acre at this site for a Methodist church, called Shiloh after the popular biblical place name. The original tr
ustees were David Byrd, Edwin Harry, Daniel Henderson, Jesse Hill, and Thomas Singletary, all buried here. The congregation first met in a log building until a frame structure was erected in 1870. In
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