There was Almost a Central Texas Town Named Mormon

Located 38 miles south of Waco and 25 miles east of Temple, the city of Rosebud is a sleepy little town that is literally named after a bush. The journey it took to being named Rosebud is probably of interest to many Mormons in Central Texas.

The following is a lightly edited excerpt from the Handbook of Texas Online:

The original settlement in the area was known as Pool's Crossing or Greer's Horsepen and was on the west bank of Pond Creek. In 1884 a man named Albert G. Tarver established a post office there called Mormon, after a group of Mormons who had settled in the area. The settlement was destroyed by fire in 1887, and Tarver resigned as postmaster.

Allin Taylor took up postmaster duties in his home, at a site now in southwestern Rosebud. Taylor wanted to name the post office Mullins to honor a local family known for their beautiful roses, but a Mullins community already existed in Texas, so he named it Rosebud instead; the post office officially became Rosebud on April 23, 1887.