Shannon Cemetery 
 Shannon,  Clay County, Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site

 Location: 
.5 mi. E of Shannon on FM 175; .5 mi. S on local road 

Marker : 
Established near a flourishing spring of water and a 
general store in 1878, the settlement around this site was known 
as Stampede Springs. The first burial in this cemetery was that of 
Mary W. Gibson (1824-1879). Trustees of the Stampede Springs 
School community purchased five acres including this site for a school,
 church and grayeyard in 1880. A post office opened in 1893, and the
 town was renamed Shannon, either by the U. S. Postal Service or by 
local settlers. In 1907 another acre was donated to the cemetery. 
The population of Shannon was 112 in the mid-1920s. A cemetery 
association was established in 1949. In 1990 the population was 23. 
There were 311 graves in the cemetery at the end of the 20th century,
 with 104 family names represented. (2000)