​Shanks Cemetery

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Marker Text: ​Matthews and Robert Shanks of Alabama settled here with their families in 1859. A small farming community developed, and in 1870 a school was built on a one-acre site donated by R. C. Murray. Land beside the schoolyard became a public burial ground, known as Shanks Cemetery after Shanks Post Office opened in 1896. The earliest recorded burial was Burgess A. Whatley (1854-1892). In 1893 G. W. Bell deeded another half acre east of the graveyard. The school building was torn down in 1917. Shanks Cemetery Association has maintained the site since 1935. (1977)

Marker No: 9904

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.732555, -96.331528

Location: on CR 950 just east of FM 80, 3 miles south of Kirvin

Shanks Cemetery

Marker No: ​15631

Texas Historical Cemetery Medallion