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Cementerio Loma de la Cruz
Del Rio, Texas
on the southwest side of town on Noriega St

Historical marker:
Cementerio Loma De La Cruz (Hill of the Cross Cemetery) - Early land developer Paula Losoya Taylor Rivers (ca. 1830-1902) realized that the people of Del Rio's Mexican Colony had no official cemetery in which to bury their dead. She donated four acres to be designated as a cemetery in 1884. Also buried here are three former U. S. Army Indian Scouts and the Rev. Ramon V. Palomares, first pastor of Del Rio's Mexican American Methodist Church. A cross placed at the top of a hill gave the cemetery its name. The last burial here took place in 1933. A cemetery association restored and maintains the graveyard.
Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986.

Association's Memorial:
En memoria de los desconocidos para nosotros pero no para Dios.
Edificado 1980 por Los Amigos del Cementerio Loma de la Cruz.
(In memory of the unknown to us but not to God.
Built 1980 by the Friends of the Loma de la Cruz Cemetery.)



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