My GGG-Grandmother, Mary Cowsert Patton who was married to James Erwin Patton, a surveyor for the Robertson District, which was later named Ellis County, was buried in the earliest marked grave in the SHILOH CEMETERY Cemetery. She died on August 15 1851.

Stories found in the Ellis County History Book:

James Erwin Patton was born in North Carolina, lived in Tennessee and by 1830 had moved with his family to Ray County Missouri. He was a relative of numerous family in that state, several of whom were ministers of that state. He was a man of honesty and integrity and so un-expecting that he suffered considerable loss financially, believing others as honest as himself. Devoted to his church, though not a sectarian, his hand ever open to the wants of suffering humanity, giving of his means to the institutions of the church and the cause of Christianity. James Erwin had limited education, but was a close observer, reader and thinker, so that he was well posted in church and governmental affairs. He engaged in locating and surveying land, which he continued to follow till the close of his earthly career.