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History of East Trinity Lodge No. 157, A.F.& A. M.
This article is
taken from the Rockwall County History. Copyright 1984,
Printed by Taylor Publishing Company for the Rockwall Historical
Foundation. Page 59 and 60; Titled: East Trinity Lodge No.
157 A.F. & A.M. This article has been edited for the
readers convenience.
On July 26,
1854, while the "rock wall" area was still a part of
Northwestern Kaufman County, East Trinity Lodge No. 157, A.F. &
A.M. was set to work under dispensation from the Grand Lodge of
Texas. Two of the ten petitioners for the creation of East
Trinity Lodge were Sterling R. Barnes and John O. Heath, the
first residents to obtain land grants (in 1848) in what is now
Rockwall County. Barnes and Heath both had located their
property improvements along the route of the Central National
Road of the Republic of Texas, and on occasion were hospitable
to travelers on that thoroughfare. For their generation
and area, both were moderately wealthy with a dozen years of
their opening the land for settlement.
The full list of petitioners for the dispensation included
Sterling R. Barns, E.P. Chisholm, Isham Chisholm, William K.
Camp, J. Davis, Miles Graves, John O. Heath, M.N. Matthews,
James Smith and James Wilson.
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