Jesse L. McCrocklin

Johnson City, TX

In 1892 local Masons bought this land from Julia Ann Moore Johnson, widow of town founder James Polk Johnson, for a lodge cemetery. Its earliest marked graves date from the 1890s and include community leaders and veterans of conflicts from the War of 1812 to Vietnam. Among more than 250 burials is the celebrated Texas Ranger Cicero Rufus Perry, who died in 1898.

Wimberley, TX

In the spring of 1840, peace talks between Texas and the Comanche collapsed in the bloody Council House Fight at San Antonio, and raiding surged along the frontier. That August, after a sweeping raid on the coastal town of Linnville, a large Comanche band was intercepted near Plum Creek by Texas Rangers and volunteers in a sprawling running fight. Local tradition holds that a handful of warriors were chased to this horseshoe bend of Lone Man Creek, where they hid in the tall grass and an oak mott until nightfall let them slip away, burying their dead beneath flat stones by moonlight.

Fredericksburg, TX

The U.S. Army established Fort Martin Scott in December 1848 to shield travelers and settlers on the Texas frontier from Indian attack, naming it for Major Martin Scott, killed the year before at the Battle of Molino del Rey in the Mexican-American War. Its garrison saw many skirmishes before the post was occupied only intermittently after 1852. Confederate forces held the site during the Civil War, and it was permanently abandoned in 1866.

Round Mountain, TX

John Walton Harrington was barely a teenager when he joined the army of the young Republic of Texas in 1836, the year of the Texas Revolution, serving into 1837. For his service he received a bounty land grant of more than a thousand acres — the kind of frontier payment that turned soldiers into stockraisers. He went on to hold land across several Hill Country and East Texas counties and raised a large family, all born in Texas.