It was a covered wagon trip from Winona, Mississippi, to Palo Pinto County for Brian and Laminda Herring that landed them here in 1880.  They settled on a farm 10 miles northeast of Mineral Wells and started helping to build a community, assisting with building Rock Creek Church.  The benches used at the present time, were a part of the original equipment of the church.  They were Baptist.

Their children:  Lizzie, Belle, Mary (Mrs. Frank Griffin), Timmie (Mrs. John Baker), William Brian (Wick), and Jimmie Herring.

Descendants of the couple who live in this county are Mrs. Joe Blain, Mrs. Warren Winters, Virgil Herring, Mrs. P. H. Graves, Dick Griffin, Brian Griffin, Mabel Griffin, Mrs. Blanche Clapp, Mary E. Clapp, John Olen Baker, Mrs. J. L. Herring and Dickie Griffin.

William Brian Herring, who was three years old when his parents settled here, grew up on the farm his parents cleared on their arrival here.  He married Jimmie Etta Shelton and they settled on a farm north of Mineral Wells, where he farmed and was a fruit grower.  Mr. Herring taught singing schools all over the county from the time he was 16 years of age and was an evangelistic singer.

The William Brian Herrings had the following children:  Myrth (Mrs. Joe Blain); William O. (buried at Whit), Rose (Mrs. Warren Winters), J. B., who lives at Colorado City; Verne Belle Freeman of Denton; Virgil Herring; Ruth (buried in Mineral Wells cemetery) and Durward Herring of Grand Prairie.

Five generations of Brian and Laminda Herring's descendants to live here are their son, W. B. Herring; granddaughter, Rose Ann Moye, the latter three born in Palo Pinto County.