Felipe & Tomasa Lara Virgen -- Sutton County Courthouse, Sonora TX
N 30° 34.321 W 100° 38.661
14R E 342313 N 3383323
One of 22 signs preserving local, family, industrial, and pioneer history are mounted on poles on the west side of the Sutton County Courthouse in downtown Sonora TX.
Waymark Code: WMPPYD
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2015
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This sign is one of 22 along water Street on the west side of the Sutton County Courthouse. This sign preserves the history of The Felipe & Tomasa Lara Virgen family, early Hispanic residents of Sonora.
The sign reads as follows:
"FELIPE & TOMASA LARA VIRGEN
Felipe came from Zaragoza, Coahuila, Mexico, with three sons in 1907 to work at the Fawcett Ranch. In 1910. He brought all of his family to Sonora. Leonardo, Teodoro, Eligio, Felipe Jr. and Andres married in Sonora. Euphemia, the only daughter, did not marry reared her six nieces and nephews who were orphaned as children. Their names were Isidoro, Alfred, Pedro, Emilio, Estella, and Felipe III. Felipe gave the site for the first Catholic Church. He died in 1925 at age 85. Tomasa died 1959, at age 88.
Eufemia Virgen
Estella Virgen Gomez – Diane Gomez Stubbs
October 1990"
Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link]
Location: Sutton County Courthouse
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