Shiloh

The plaque calls Montraville Woods the son of a Texas patriot. The patriot was Zadock Woods, born September 18, 1773 in Brookfield, Massachusetts, who joined Stephen F. Austin's colony in 1824 and fought at Gonzales in 1835. On February 10, 1836 he housed a Tennessee company under Daniel William Cloud on its way to the Alamo. He was killed on his sixty-ninth birthday in the Dawson Massacre near Salado Creek in 1842, and about six years later he was reburied at what is now Monument Hill in La Grange.

What the plaque says

Shiloh The small farming community of Shiloh began about 1847 with settlement by the McBride, Hamilton, McFarland, Odom, Anderson, and Woods families. In 1851 John Keith Rankin helped organize a Methodist Episcopal Church, whose members erected a building in 1852. Shiloh School, established in 1856, served the community until the early part of the 20th century. The first burial in the Shiloh Cemetery was that of Montraville Woods, son of Texas patriot Zadock Woods, in 1857. Woods Cemetery, as it is now called, is all that remains of the Shiloh community. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 11 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• Goliad State Park and Historic Site — 25 mi
  Mission Espíritu Santo on the San Antonio River, a mission ranch whose herds seeded Texas cattle country, rebuilt from ruin by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 26 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Panna Maria — 27 mi
  The Silesian village on a plateau above the San Antonio River that claims the oldest permanent Polish settlement in America, with a church of 1878 and a ceiling found again in 2000.

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• Lithuanians in Texas — 6.5 mi
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