Solis Cemetery - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Marker Title: Solis Cemetery
Address:
City: La Feria
County: Cameron
Subject Codes: graveyards
Year Marker Erected: 2010
Designations: na
Marker Location: Approximately 1.5 miles directly northwest from the center of La Feria, Texas, and specifically .5 mile north of the intersection of U. S. Highway 83 and Solis Road and on the east side of Solis Road. This is the OLD US Business 83.
Marker Size: 18" x 28'

This is a much better Marker Location:
Approximately 1.25 miles west of La Feria. Take Business SH 83 to FM 2556 or Cantu Rd and turn north about .12 mile. Turn east on Solis Rd about .43 mile. Turn east on Calle Solis.

Marker Number: 16522 Marker Text: Juan Jose Solis, grantee of porción 107 in Starr County and founder of El Soliseño, Mexico, was patriarch of the Solis family in this area. His grandson Francisco (1801-1876), and his wife Anastacia Rivas de Solis (b. 1808), were early residents of Point Isabel and Brownsville, later settling in La Feria. Their son Lazaro (1840-1904) and his brother-in-law Ysabel Cantu (b. 1849) bought about 5,000 acres of the La Feria grant in July 1898, establishing the Solis Ranch. Within its boundaries the men and their families raised cattle, horses and goats and grew several crops. When Lazaro died suddenly while visiting family in Point Isabel, his body was brought back to the ranch for burial, a common practice in that era. His is the first burial in Solis Cemetery, also known as San Francisco Cemetery. In 1905, Lazaro’s widow Francisca (1853-1911) partitioned Lazaro’s land among herself and her seven children. Lazaro and Francisca’s hand-lettered concrete spanish-language grave marker is signed “Juan, Mateo and Gumercindo Del Mísmo Appelído” ([sons] Juan, Mateo and Gumercindo of the same last name). In 1929, Solis Cemetery was surveyed and platted and a public road was developed to provide access. The cemetery is an active family burial ground of more than three acres. Sparsely shaded by mesquites and other native trees, the cemetery has more than 300 graves, most of which have markers of wood, stone, bronze or concrete. Solis Cemetery is the final resting place of known and unknown people of hispanic, anglo and african-american descent, and as many as five generations of the Solis family. Veterans of World War II and the Korean War Are buried here. This burial ground is testimony to generations of local ranching and family traditions. Historic Texas Cemetery – 2002 Marker is property of the State of Texas

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