Henderson County , Texas- Heddins Family Cemetery
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By Roland Heddins     
RJHeddins@aol.com
Family Web Site:     http://heddins.com

HEDDINS FAMILY CEMETERY
This little family cemetery is located about 2/10 mile south of the Van
Zandt 
County line in northern Henderson County, Texas, just off the west side of 
Highway 19 in the J.P. McCormack Survey.  This land was purchased by James 
and Clarinda Lee (Brewster) Heddins from G. E. Attaway on October 4, 1870. 
Their son, James Marion Heddins inherited the land in 1881 and then sold it
to M. A. Sims on Jan. 20, 1886.  

The two broken down tombstones identify the location of the four known
people 
buried there:

Joint tombstone with "In Memory of" inscribed above two clasped hands:
James Heddins
born Oct. 26, 1824
died Jan. 24, 1881

Clarinda L. Heddins  [incorrectly spelled Clarenda on the tombstone]
born Dec. 17, 1831
died Sept. 27, 1873

[James Heddins, a son of Isaiah (Josiah) Heddins (a veteran of the War of 
1812) and Saloma (Carpenter) Heddins, was born in Delaware County, Ohio. 
James' grandfather was a veteran of the Revolutionary War from New York 
state.  Clarinda, a daughter of Thomas and Martha Brewster, was born in 
Grayson County, Kentucky. James and Clarinda married on Feb. 28, 1850 in 
Coles County, Illinois, and moved to Van Zandt County, Texas in a wagon
train 
in late 1853 or early 1854.  James received a land grand of 160 acres of
land 
at Pleasant Ridge in southern Van Zandt County on Oct. 11, 1859 after
having 
lived there for three years.]

Small joing tombstone with a dove at the top:
Two Infants of I.L. & J.A. Heddins
son, born Dec. 22, 1881
dau., born Jan. 1, 1883
died 1881 & 1883

[these were stillborn infants of Isaiah Lafayette Heddins and Julia Ann 
(Ballard) Heddins; grandchildren of James and Clarinda Heddins. The son was
Isaiah and Julia's firstborn child. The infant daughter was named "Aaron"
and 
was a twin sister of Mary "Effie" Heddins (who later married J. Marvin 
Adams)].

Besides the four known people at this small family cemetery, it is likely 
that two of James and Clarinda Heddins' children were also buried there in 
Dec. of 1872, although no tombstones are there to prove it.  If that is the
case, these two young people would have been the first to have been buried 
there, preceding their mother in death by about nine months:

Thomas Jeffries Heddins
born Aug. 5, 1852
died Dec. 15, 1872

Drucilla Adelia Heddins
born April 6, 1854
died Dec. 17, 1872

It's also possible that their brother Oscar Winnfield Heddins is buried 
there. He apparently died between 1896 and 1900.  Oscar was born July 28, 
1859.