John Robin Heard Cemetery

A 2009 transcription on the Cass County TXGenWeb site lists 23 named burials here, among them J. D. Floyd of Company D, 1st Mississippi Cavalry (1845-1934), and Charles D. Heard of Bird's Texas Cavalry, with Masonic symbols on the stones of three Hendersons. Faye Spurger Perdue wrote in 1979 that Killis S. Floyd, who deeded the land for Floyds' Hill Church, is buried in the Heard cemetery. The transcription lists a K. S. Floyd (1824-1886) and Martha Floyd (1825-1888), and notes a stone of bricks and rock without a name.

What the plaque says

John Robin Heard Cemetery Land for this one-acre family cemetery (3.5 mi. S) was donated by John Robin Heard (1794-1866), who came to Texas in 1853 and founded the nearby town of Cussetta. First burial occurred in 1861 after the death of Cornelius Floyd (b. 1859), Heard's grandson. The 23 graves include those of Heard and his second wife, Mary Hopkins Heard (1806-1863). The cemetery fence was provided by another of Heard's grandsons, W. Q. Henderson (1858-1934). Descendants formed a cemetery association in 1974 and organized a perpetual care trust fund. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Atlanta State Park — 13 mi
  A shoreline park on Wright Patman Lake, leased from the Army in 1954, where Caddo ancestors farmed the Sulphur River and wagon traces such as the Bobo Ferry trace still cross the woods.
• Daingerfield State Park — 17 mi
  A pine-and-hardwood park built in 1935-39 by a white and a Black Civilian Conservation Corps company, with a dammed lake, Bass Lodge and a 2.4-mile loop trail around the water.
• Museum of Regional History — 30 mi
  Texarkana's oldest museum, in an 1879 brick building on State Line Avenue, with Caddo pottery, one of Scott Joplin's pianos and a research library of city directories and photographs.

More markers nearby

• Floyds' Hill Church - Cemetery — 0.9 mi
• John Robin Heard — 3.2 mi
• Methodist Episcopal Church of Douglassville — 6.2 mi
• Douglassville Cemetery — 6.3 mi