Tracing Rockwall’s Roots: The First Families and Land Patents That Shaped Our County

By Editor on October 31, 2025 4:21 PM   Featured Stories, Good Living, Heath, McLendon-Chisholm, Recent Stories, Rockwall, Rowlett, Royse City  

Frank Locke shares insight into Rockwall’s earliest settlers through Republic-era land records Rockwall Pioneers By Frank LockeMember, Rockwall County Historical Foundation and Rockwall County Historical Commission At the Rockwall County Historical Foundation’s Sheri Stodghill Lecture Series on October 10, the evening’s topic was The Settlement of Rockwall County by Original Land Patents. Speaker Frank Locke—member […]