| Marker Number |
6135 |
| Atlas Number |
5397006135 |
| Marker Title |
Sterling Rex Barnes |
| Index Entry |
Barnes, Sterling Rex |
| Address |
Smirl Dr. (FM 1140) & Terry Ln. in Heath Cemetery |
| City |
Heath |
| County |
Rockwall |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
735905 |
| UTM Northing |
3636286 |
| Subject Codes |
Business topics, general; pioneers |
| Marker Year |
1981 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
in front of Heath Cemetery at the corner of Smirl (FM 1140) Dr and Terry Lane, Heath |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
(Gravesite in Heath Cemetery) Virginia native Sterling Rex Barnes (1799-1866) migrated to this area from Mississippi with his wife Martha Ann (Mitchell) (b. 1809) and family in 1846. A pioneer settler in the community of Black Hill, now Heath, he was a charter member of East Trinity Masonic Lodge No. 157 in Rockwalll, organized in 1854. Barnes was the local justice of the peace in 1852 and operated a toll bridge at a site on the east fork of the Trinity River, now under the waters of Lake Ray Hubbard. Five sons and one son-in-law served with the Confederacy during the Civil War. (1981) |
