Sterling Rex Barnes
​ (Gravesite in Heath Cemetery)

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Marker Text: ​ 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 Rockwall, 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) 

Marker No: 6135

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: ​32° 50.386′ N, 96° 28.762′ W

Location: ​1500 Farm to Market Road 1140, Rockwall