John and Lucinda Nugent Sheridan

A Houston County survey records what became of John Sheridan's gravestone. His original marker broke some years before the survey, and his grandson Neil Sheridan set the pieces in Augusta Cemetery beside the graves of his wife, Lucinda, and their son Jacob. The survey puts his grave near the site of his home on Silver Creek, though the plaque says the exact spot is unknown. The survey says the story is told on markers in the cemetery and in Augusta Park, and it calls Sheridan the brother of Mrs. McLean, listed there as Hannah Sheridan.

What the plaque says

John and Lucinda Nugent Sheridan John and Lucinda (Nugent) Sheridan left North Carolina in the mid-1820s and became two of Houston County's first permanent settlers. John (Apr. 5, 1796 – May 10, 1837), a former Texas Ranger, was killed by Indians in what is now Anderson County. Lucinda (Jan. 20, 1808 - Feb. 4, 1862) retrieved his body for burial on his own property. Although the exact grave site is unknown, it is approximately .5 miles north of this site. Lucinda, who is buried here, later gave part of their land for this cemetery. Recorded - 1984

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission Tejas State Park — 5.6 mi
  A 661-acre pine-forest park on the old El Camino Real near Weches, with a 1930s replica of the 1690 mission, the Rice Family Log Home and trails past remnants of the Spanish road.
• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 11 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.
• Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area — 15 mi
  A Davy Crockett National Forest lake of about 45 acres, built by the CCC in 1936 from a sawmill log pond, with a swimming beach, camping and the start of the 20-mile Four-C Trail.
• Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 20 mi
  A round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.

More markers nearby

• Site of Old Town of Augusta — 0.3 mi
• Daniel McLean and John Sheridan — 0.3 mi
• The Edens-Madden Massacre — 0.3 mi
• Waneta Community and School — 2.6 mi