HIDALGO COUNTY, TX - LOS NOVILLOS RANCH CEMETERY

Submitted by cshaffer@houston.rr.com  (typed from records provided by
surveyors)
Surveyed by Virginia G. Stinson, February 1976
COPYRIGHT HIDALGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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There is only one grave is this cemetery, that of a young girl who died
of scarlet fever.  Her grave is just outside the southeast corner of the 
yard of the ranch headquarters.  Mr. Raymond Gee, present owner of the ranch,
was at home and gave us the information and permissin to copy the incription.
The headquarters are located on thenorth side of FM 1017, just east of the 
little settlement of Guadalupe Terrero.  Mr. Gee said the ranch was once 
called the San Lane Ranch.

(Tombstone)

Q.E.P.D.
ESTER G. CANTU
Nacio Nov 25, 1908
Fallecio Ene 12, 1926
Sus Padres Adoptivos
Martiniano Cantu Y
Timotea C. Cantu Dedican
Este Recuerdo Asu Memoria

(Inscribed on the cement slab over the grave)

Murio Tranquila en la Manana Fria
Sin una quja y la mirada al cielo
Pero en los suyos Cuanto Desconuelo
Desde aquel triste, inolvidable dia.

Siera elle en nuestro Hogar, nuestra Alegria
De todos las virtudes, un modelo;
Si era ella Nuestro Encanto y nuestro Anhelo
Orque te la llevaste muerte impia

Faltaba acaso en la celeste altrua
Una estrella de nitido fulor
O una viren mas candida y mas pura
Justiciera es tu ley; pero ah
Senor ....... Estrella o virgen
U sentencia es dura,
Porque nos llena en alma de dolor.