Herring-Hogge Cemetery

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The cemetery located on South Murphy Road and Skyline Drive was established in the early 1870’s. Like many cemeteries it was known as both Herring Cemetery or Hogge Cemetery. 

It was started on land owned by Daniel Herring who came to Texas in 1848 with his wife and family and his mother.  His first wife and mother were buried in the Decatur-Maxwell-Murphy Cemetery because the Herring-Hogge Cemetery had not been built at the time of their death. 

Three families were buried in the cemetery: Herring, Hogge, and McAmis. Daniel Herring, his second wife Elizabeth Jane Newman, and a number of the children are buried in the cemetery.

Eli Hogge arrived in Texas in the 1850’s and married Sarah Jane Herring with whom he had eleven children.  He joined the Confederacy and was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.  After returning to Texas, he built his homestead near Parker.  Both Eli and Sarah are buried in the cemetery.

James McAmis married Martha Hogge, the daughter of Eli and Sarah Hogge.  James, Martha, and some of their children were buried there.