HERRING CEMETERY - MURPHY
HOGGE CEMETERY
Murphy Road south of Renner
Road
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, Joy
Gough
This cemetery was started by Daniel Herring in the 1870's. He came to Collin
County in 1848 from Illinois with his wife and family and his mother and was in
the same group as William Sachse. His headright spanned the Collin/Dallas county
line. He built his home on the highest point of land on his property. That would
be about 1 block north of the cemetery. His first wife and his mother were
buried in the Old Murphy/Maxwell-Decatur Cemetery, probably in the 1850's. The
Herring Cemetery had not been started at the time of their deaths.
Daniel Herring and his second wife are in the Herring Cemetery. The earliest
graves here are in 1874. One of the Herring girls married a Hogge. The Herrings
and Hogges make up most of the cemetery. There is a history of Daniel Herring
and his family in the Sachse library in the book SACHSE REMEMBERED. There is a
very good write-up on the cemetery in THE WYLIE NEWS, January 18, 1995, entitled
"History intertwined in early family histories."
The cemetery faces Murphy Road. It has a wrought-iron fence with a walk-through
gate and is about 40 x 80 feet in size. The grass has not been mowed recently.
Someone has put in new stones in place of some of the old ones. The old stones
are lying flat on the ground. This cemetery is for 3 old families of the area,
including McAmis, who also married into the Herring family. Some local residents
call it the Hogge Cemetery with a long O. I have not been able to find a deed
for this cemetery.
The history of the Hogge name is that is was originally spelled "Hogue." There
was an unsavory person in the area of St. Paul, Dump, with the same name. Mr.
Hogue was the post master of Dump. He decided that as post master he could, and
would, change the spelling to "Hogge."
The cemetery is about � mile south of the intersection with Renner Road.
Murphy CEMETERY INDEX
Recommended citation:
Herring Cemetery - Murphy, "CEMETERIES OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County,
Texas History and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries,
Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
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