Cementerio San Isidro - Sugar Land, TX
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jhuoni
N 29° 36.280 W 095° 36.117
15R E 248013 N 3277808
Located on Sugar Creek Blvd in a neighborhood of large homes. Hidden behind an 8 foot wooden fence and backed by a bayou, it is quite easy to miss this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMVW3B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/01/2017
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An iron gate with 1351 is all that is visible from the street. When you enter it is hard to believe that this cemetery located here, in this upscale neighhborhood.
Cementerio San Isidro is also known as Grand Central Cemetery and San Isidro Cemetery.
This is a Private Hispanic Cemtery. Original deed stated: must have been born in Sugar Land or Hispanic to be buried in this cemetery. Now restrictions: must have been born in Sugar Land or worked fields as a farmer or kin to someone already buried here. In 1918 Imperial Sugar gave 2 acres and allowed Mexican-Americans who were farming for the company to bury their people in this area. Later deeded to Dioceses for many years & eventually named San Isidro (for the laborer's saint) Cemetery Association Corp.
Number of known burials: 690
Earliest known burial: 1920
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Isidore the Farm Labourer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – May 15, 1130), was a Spanish farmworker known for his piety toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers. (
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