​Bernard Scherrer
​(1807-1892)

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Marker No: 379

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.065065, -96.694939

Location: At Scherrer cabin in Henkel Square, corner of  Live Oak & Main Streets,  Round Top

Marker Text: ​Bernard Scherrer left his native Switzerland at the age of 22 for extended travels before reaching Texas in 1833. After serving in Burleson's regiment during the Texas Revolution, he received a land grant in Colorado County but settled in Beigel settlement (Fayette County) about 1838. Here he served as Justice of the Peace, County Commissioner, and in 1845 he married Gesine Eliza Margarete Koch. He left his civic, farming and freighting duties to serve in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. This cabin, Scherrer's first residence in Texas, was moved to this location in 1975. (1992)