WILLACY COUNTY, TEXAS--CHAVEZ CEMETERY (#1) (near Raymondville, Texas)
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Submitted by Cindy Shaffer cshaffer@houston.rr.com
I have no connection to the people interred in this cemetery; I was traveling 
with my daughter and grandson, and my daughter, in looking at the map, located 
this cemetery.  She wanted to search it out because of the fact the map showed 
it with no name (see NOTE below).  When we found the cemetery, since it was not 
large, we transcribed it.  Special thanks to my daughter, Amanda Golden Emery 
and my grandson, Steven K. Golden (age 8), for sharing my love of history and my 
interest in the Tombstone Project (and for helping me transcribe this cemetery).

NOTE:  In the Roads of Texas map book, Chavez No. 1 is shown with no name and 
Chavez No. 2 is identified with the name Chavez.  When actually visiting these 
cemeteries, we found that these two cemeteries are located only a mile or two 
apart, in different directions off the same County Road 105 and that what we are 
calling Chavez Cemetery #1 is marked with a sign with the name, while Chavez 
Cemetery #2 is not.  

DIRECTIONS:  From Raymondville, Texas, traveling south on Hwy. 77, just south of 
Raymondville take County Road 490 west.  Continue on CR 490 past CR 1425 (4 way 
intersection and blinking yellow light) approximately 1.5 miles from the 
490/1425 intersection.  The County Roads going north-south off of CR 490 are 
mostly marked, and most are caliche/dirt roads (NOT paved – we would have 
thought they were roads for access to farmland and not county roads if they 
hadn't been marked!).  The road to turn south on to reach Chavez Cemetery #1 is 
not marked with a CR sign (we have guessed by the other CR signs that this 
should be CR 105), but is marked with a green sign "Chavez Cemetery."    Turn 
south on this road and travel approximately 1.1 mile and the cemetery will be on 
the east side, bordering the road.  This cemetery is fenced and appears well 
kept and still in use.  All of the land surrounding this cemetery is farmland, 
and there was a big sugar cane field on the west side of the road when we were 
there in June 2001.  The majority of markers are marble, with some made of wood 
(we have indicated the wooden markers).

While we were unable to transcribe Chavez Cemetery #2 at this time, the location 
for it is to turn north off of CR 490 (instead of south to Chavez #1 – CR 105?) 
and travel approximately 0.5 mile.  Chavez #2 is located on the east side of (CR 
105?) as well, set back off of the road in a stand of trees.  There is a dirt 
access road leading to it through the crop fields (when we visited, the crops 
surrounding the cemetery were sorghum and sugar cane).  

Transcribing in rows, north to south, beginning with the graves immediately 
inside the gate

Row 1, Grave 1
GUADALUPE C. CHAVEZ
April 23, 1888
April 7, 1978

Row 1 Grave 2
JOSE MARIA CHAVEZ, SR.
Sept. 12, 1887
April 6 1980

Row 2, Grave 1
(back) With Great Appreciation for All the Love and Affection Offered by a 
Loving Human Husband Jessie
(front) Jessie  
Jan. 31, 1965                   
(on the same stone, beside Jessie)
MARIA NOELLA (PINKY)
Jan. 18, 1959
Jan. 17, 1986

Row 2, Grave 2
(wooden cross)
DANIEL CHAVEZ
(no dates)

Row 2, Grave 3
GEORGE A. COLUNGA
June 1, 1988
July 16, 1988

Row 2, Grave 4
N. R. JR, CHAVEZ
Dec. 8, 1962
Mar. 19, 1966
(shared stone w/)
BABIES
July 31, 1960
July 31, 1960
(there was a slab covering these two plots, with many childrens' toys on top)

Row 2 Grave 5
(wooden cross)
JOSE NOEL CHAVEZ
(no dates)

Row 2 Grave 6
DOMINGA CHAVEZ
Feb. 17, 1957
Feb. 17, 1957
Recuerdo De Su Familia

Row 2 Grave 7
ARMANDO ANDRIAN CHAVEZ
Nacio Abr 18 1951
Fallecio June 26 1957
Unrecuerdo De Sus Padre Sy Mermanos (? Difficult to decipher)

Row 2 Grave 8
MARIA ALBERRO CHAVEZ
Born Feb. 5, 1988
Died. Feb. 5, 1988
(wooden cross, badly deteriorating)

Row 2 Grave 9
CELIA GARCIA CHAVEZ
Mar. 23, 1928
July 29, 1981

Row 3 Grave 1
ZELDA GARCIA
In Loving Memory
Sept. 2, 1966
Aug. 6, 1995
Un Recuerdo De Sus Hijos

Row 3 Grave 2
DANIEL MARROQUIN
Sept. 11, 1937
Un Recuerdo De Su Madre Y Hermanos

Row 3 Grave 3 & 4
MARROQUIN (double marker)
AURELIO
8-14-1907
3-17-1954
MARIA PILAR
2-22-1915

Row 3 Grave 5
LEONARDO C. CHAVEZ
Junio 30, 1911 
July 20, 1984
Un Recuerdo De Sus Hyos Y Hijas

Row 3 Grave 6
ESTEFANA D. CHAVEZ
Marzo 20, 1913
Marzo 16, 1987
Un Recuerdo De Sus Hijos Y Hijas

Row 3 Grave 7
JOSE LUIS RENAUD
b. June 14, 1962
d. Sept.24, 1987
(wooden cross w/brass plate and concrete cross)