El Carmen Cemetery

Hidalgo Co. Cemeteries of Tx

Submitted by Frances Isbell

With Permission  of Hidalgo Co. Historical Commission (2005)

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LOCATION:  East central Hidalgo County about 4.5 miles northeast of Faysville.  From US 281 about 6.5 miles north of Edinburg, go east on FM2812 for 4.5 miles to Brushline Road. Turn north on Brushline 2.6 miles.  Cemetery is about 440 yards west of the road in line with and .7 miles east of microwave tower.  El Cibolo Road approaches from the west, but this requires entry through locked gates of the Arco plant.

SURVEYED:  April 16, 1981 by Joyce and Verne Pringle, Marjorie McCraw and Fran Isbell.  Gaps in numbers indicate unmarked or empty graves.

HISTORY: El Carmen Ranch was one of approximately 40 family ranches established by the Cardenas Family of La Noria Cardenena Ranch. They had received 60 leagues in San Salvador del Tule Land Grant in 1829, as settlement for a debt owed by grantee Juan Jose Balli. Jorge Cavazos Cardenas and his wife Carmen Cardenas Cavazos, who were married in 1885, owned El Carmen, where they raised cattle and cotton.  They established the cemetery in 1909 at the death of their daughter Maria Luisa.

The ranch was inherited by their daughter MissIsidora Cavazos and daughter-in-law Emma Estimbo Cavazos. It has been used as a hunting preserve in recent years. In her will, Isidora set aside one acre for the cemetery, with no drilling. The family of ranch foreman Rosalio Munguia maintains the cemetery. 

A01 Miss MARIA L. VELIZ 8-8-19 - 12-9-1980  Age 80  Ceballos-Diaz Funeral Home

A02 PAULA VELA Aug1914-10Feb1946 de sus hijos

A03 APOLINAR VELIZ 23Jun1913-16Jul1945     Su esposa Genoveva Veliz y hijo dedican

A04 LEONARDO BELIZ 1879-17Apr1939 Hijos

A05 ROSALIO MUNGIA 22Nov1870-8May1940  Recuerdo de su esposa e higos [Double]        Mrs. PAULA MUNGIA 7-11-1881 - 2-2-1981 Age 99  Ceballos-Diaz Funeral Home

A06 GUADALUPE SOLIS 10May1910-14Feb1941 Su esposo y hijos dedican este recuerdo

A07 FAUSTINA CHAPA 15Feb1877-19May1942  Su hijos dedican este recuerdo

A09 Mrs. JOSEFINA M. ADAME 10-22-1905-       9-24-1980 Age 74  Ceballos-Diaz Funeral Home

B03 NIEVES MUNOZ

 B05 VICENTE (ID?)[V]ELIZ M[urio]11 E[dad]60  de esposa e (hijos?)

C02 GUADALUPE RODRIGUEZ 12Dec1877-6Jul1926  esposo y hijo  

D01 COSTANCIA OLLERVIDEZ Aug1869-Jul1935  de su hijo Juan  [picture] [double]

       JUAN OLLERVIDEZ died 23Jan1980 Age 69   Ceballos-Diaz Funeral Home, Edinburg

D02 HORTENCIA OLL[ervidez] 22Jun1936-  13Feb1956 de sus padres y hermanos

D04  [Cavazos plot, 3 graves, iron fence in curb] MARIA LUISA CAVAZOS 22Oct1886-19Feb1909 su madre dedica este recuerdo a su memoria

En memoria de JORGE CAVAZOS CARDENAS  nacio en el Rancho El Tajito 19Jul1859 y murio en McAllen TX 16Oct1912 por su esposa e hijos

FELICIANO CAVAZOS 13Jul1892-31Oct1918 su madre dedica este recuerdo

E01 TEOFILO OLLERVIDEZ 6Jun1894-8Apr1974  Recuerdo de su esposa,hijos y hijas [picture]  MARIA A. OLLERVIDEZ 12Dec1894-21Mar1945 On cross, Sra Maria Alvarado Ollervidez 56 yrs   [double]

E02 CELESTINO OLLERVIDEZ 9Jul1926-24Feb1956  de sus padres y hermanos

E03 CRISANTO OLLERVIDES 22Feb1957-30May1958 de sus padres y hermanos [photo]