DeBerry

Before it was DeBerry the community was Evergreen, the Handbook of Texas says, and it was renamed for Alfred Wesley De Berry, born in Franklin, Kentucky, on February 11, 1829. He reached Texas in January 1850 and was admitted to the bar at Carthage in 1855. In 1862 he organized and commanded Company C, the Texas Lancers, of the Twenty-eighth Texas Cavalry, and he resigned on July 3, 1863, citing ill health. He was a charter member of the Texas Bar Association in 1882 and died at Aransas Pass in 1903. The town's post office opened in 1874.

What the plaque says

DeBerry Site of 1850 sawmill and grist mill. Settled mostly by cotton planters. Center for markets and gins. Oil development after 1900. Named for Col. Alfred W. DeBerry (1829-1903), 28th Texas cavalry, dismounted, Confederate army. In 1863-65 legislature, helped pass laws to give confederacy men, revenue and supplies, support soldiers' families and defend Texas frontiers. In 1874-76 was Secretary of State under Gov. Richard Coke, who put Texas government into the hands of the people after nine years of federal rule. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tex Ritter Museum and Texas Country Music Hall of Fame — 14 mi
  Carthage's country music museum, with Tex Ritter's boots, guitars and saddles in a room styled like a movie theater, and exhibits on other Texas stars, Jim Reeves among them.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 20 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 20 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 21 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.

More markers nearby

• Bell-Fountain Cemetery — 3.0 mi
• Mt. Zion Cemetery — 3.9 mi
• Bailey Anderson — 4.7 mi
• Site of Bethany — 8.5 mi