HIDALGO COUNTY, TX - SANTA ANA WILDLIFE REFUGE CEMETERY

Submitted by cshaffer@houston.rr.com  (typed from records provided by 
surveyors)

COPYRIGHT HIDALGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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This cemetery is fairly well kept as far as keeping out weeds and brush. 
There is a chain link fenced around it, but a part of the original fence 
is still there, too, inside the chain-linked fence.  It is made of hand-hewn
logs set on end, side by side.  They are probably ebony logs. The big boveda,
with the inscription and a broken wooden cross, are the only markers inside 
the original fence.

Inscription from the big boveda:
Con fechasde Agosto de 1876
Aqi llacen las cenisas de
D. Cristoval Leal fallecio E
43 anos e edade dejando gratos
recuerdos como buen esposa y
fiel cuidadano.  Ma. Rafaela Trivino esposa e Leal consagra
estas a su memoria.
D.E.P.

There are 5 other visible grave markers:
One is a board with the cross board gone;
There are 2 wooden crosses;
A cement cross with part of the inscription "1929 ?? dedisie fallesio";
A monument with a cross of top of it.

There are 4 maguey plants and 19 clumps of lillies that could each be
marking a grave site.

A broken monument with this inscription:
CORNELIA HUERTA
Nacio 1866
Fallecio Aug 17, 1926
Un recuerdo su esposa y
Hijas y sus hihos

There are possibly 30 graves here, but the above are all that were legible.