Herron Cemetery, Bastrop County, Texas

Submitted by Tammy Owens

Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Location: From McDade, across from the McDade Cemetery, go south on CR 2336. Go 2 miles and turn left on Herron Trail (CR 353). The cemetery is on the left in a pasture, surrounded by a barbed wire fence with a 2-foot high rock wall.

This cemetery involves two of four Watson brothers and the Herrons. Pleatus Thomas Watson was the cemetery’s trustee. He did not stay long in Bastrop County.

There is a state marker for John Herron:

John Herron, a Mina Volunteer in the Texas War for Independence. A San Jacinto Veteran