Santa Monica Ranch  Cemetery

Hidalgo Co. Cemeteries of Tx

Submitted by Frances Isbell

With Permission  of Hidalgo Co. Historical Commission (2005)

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LOCATION: From FM 1017 in Puerto Rico, turn north on caliche road for 3.5 miles or past three cattle guards to Cipres Community. Cemetery is on left just before the fourth cattle guard.

SURVEYED: December 1975 by Wilma C. Kosar and Kathryn B. Kosar for McAllen Genealogical Society. Updated September 7, 1987 by Nicasio Hinojosa Jr. of Houston for Hispanic Genealogical Society.

HISTORY: Santa Monica Ranch was established by Margarito Hinojosa about 1900, on his share of his father Jose Lino Hinojosa‘s ranch, He named it Santa Monica because the first water well was completed May 4, the saint’s feast day.

Jose Lino Hinojosa (1836-1900) was a great grandson of Camargo settler Jose de Hinojosa, who had settled on Arroyo del Sauz in Starr County. In 1859 or 1860, Lino married Cruz Gonzalez; they had six children. In 1863, he served as a Quartermaster Sergeant in the 2d Texas Cavalry, having enlisted in the Union Army at Fort Brown.

In 1882, Lino Hinojosa purchased 4,000 acres in the San Ramon Grant in present northwest Hidalgo County. He also bought three public land surveys, of a square mile each in San Ramon Grant in 1885. Lino continued to live in Starr County, and his sons Margarito and Fabian operated the ranch in Hidalgo County. They built a stone house, one of the few existing in Hidalgo County, where the family took refuge during a 1915 bandit attack.

Margarito (1862-1943) built Santa Monica Ranch on his share of the San Ramon property. He married Liberata Longoria in 1906; they had twelve children. Margarito served as a deputy U.S. marshal in 1892; he deeded land for public roads, made donations to help build as church for the community, and donated an acre for the Santa Monica School.

Eight of his descendants operate the ranch today. His brother Fabian founded adjacent Cipres Ranch on his share.

Margarito Hinojosa established a family cemetery on the ranch about 1928.

…Texas Family Land Heritage Registry, 1991.

 

LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

BIRTH DATE

DEATH DATE

COMMENTS

GARCIA

MARGARITA C.

-

16 JAN 1964

A01 AGE 81 YRS 8 MO 19 DA FHM

CARO

PEDRO

-

16 JAN 1973

A02 79 YRS FHM

PEREZ

GUADALUPE S

16 SEP 1879

18 APR 1964

A03 SONS, DAUS

CARO

-

-

-

A04 WOOD CROSS

C______

LUG___IO

20 Mar 1898

24? Mar 19(?4)5

A05

UNKNOWN

-

-

-

A06 WOOD CROSS

UNKNOWN

-

-

  

A07 CONCRETE CROSS

PEREZ

FEDERICO

29 FEB 1908

6 APR 1963

B08 WIFE, SON, DAU

UNKNOWN

-

-

24 Oct 1946

B09

PEREZ

BONIFACIO

14 MAY 1873

9 FEB 1945

B10

PEREZ

DARIO [DAVID]

-

11 JAN 1942

B11 81 YRS WIFE, DAUS

PEREZ

ANTONIO P

1857

1933

B12 SONS, DAUS

HINOJOSA

FABIAN C

19 FEB 1877

16 DEC 1948

C13 TEXAS PVT 7 INF ; SERVED IN PHILIPPINES DURING INSURECTION 1903-1904 FOUNDER OF NEARBY CIPRES RANCH’ BRO. OF MARGARITO

UNKNOWN

-

-

-

C14 CONCRETE CROSS

HINOJOSA

LIBERATA

[AUG 16] 1881

[2 SEP] 1975

D15 WIFE OF RANCH FOUNDER MARGARITO HINOJOSA

HINOJOJSA

MARGARITO

22 FEB 1862

2 MAY 1943

D16 WIFE, SONS; RANCH FOUNDER

HINOJOSA

SOFIA

14 MAY 1908

22 JUL 1928

D17 PARENTS MARGARITO, LIBERATA L. DE HINOJOSA , BROS

MUNOZ

HERMITO A

2 MAY 1911

19 NOV 1928

D18PARENTS,BROS

HINOJOSA

PEDRO

31 JAN 1902

21 JUN 1931

D19 WIFE, SONS

HINOJOSA

ALVARO

1 OCT 1923

24 JUN 1949

E20 MOTHER, BROS; SON OF MARGARITO; TEXAS PFC 317 INF 80 INF DIV WWII BSM PH

HINOJOSA

NICASIO

12 OCT 1913

17 OCT 1953

E21 WIFE, SONS; SON OF MARGARITO AND LIBERATA

HINOJOSA

CHARLY [DAVID CARLOS]

22 JUN 1947

14 JUN 1960

E22 MOTHER HORTENCIA, BRO NICKY JR.; DIED IN SAME CAR ACCIDENT AS ELISA CAZARES

E23

CAZARES

ELISA R.

14 FEB 1923

14 JUN 1960

E25 SISTER YOLANDA, HUSBAND MANUEL CAZARES

HINOJOSA

DELFINA CASAS

24 DEC 1898

23 FEB 1974

E26 HUSBAND, DAUS , SONS

AVILA

PEDRO

-

-

NOT A GRAVE; THIS WAS A CHILD’S PRANK