Siloah Cemetery

Siloah Cemetery. . Named for the community it served, Siloah, meaning "Sent," takes its name from the Siloah Pool in the Bible where Jesus healed a blind man after coating his eyes with clay. In 1882, August Wolf, a member of the German Lutheran congregation at Siloah, donated five acres of land for the purpose of constructing a building to serve as a church, parsonage and school. In addition, the gifted land also designated a site for a cemetery. Pastor Johannes Michael Haag conducted the first service on January 7,1883. , On May 17 of that year, the first burial occurred with the interment of a young man named Louis Wolf. In October 1916, church trustees purchased property located in McDade. The following month, a portion of the five acres was sold back to the original owners, leaving a little under three acres available to be used for the cemetery. , With construction completed in 1917, the second Siloah church served McDade and surrounding communities. After a fire in 1923, a small church was rebuilt on the same site but disbanded in 1944. On April 13, 1962, the congregation reorganized as the Faith Lutheran Church and dedicated a new brick building on November 17, 1968. , In 2015, a gift of two acres, a portion of the original land donated by August Wolf, was deeded back to the Siloah Cemetery Association. The grave markers provide a record of military veterans and early families who through faith and perseverance formed a close-knit community. The Siloah Cemetery stands as the only remaining link to what was once the thriving community.