Old Rio Grande Cemetery
This stop on the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail takes us to Starr County and the city cemetery in Rio Grande City. In the same year that the territory north of the Rio Grande was grafted onto the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Rio Grande City residents Henry Clay Davis and Hilaria Davis donated land for a city cemetery. Burials at the site began soon afterward. Davis, a Mexican War veteran, and his wife, Hilaria de la Garza-Davis, are buried in the center of the cemetery. The cemetery remained in operation through and after the Civil War and houses the graves of multiple Civil War veterans as well as other notables from that era.
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El mismo año en que el territorio al norte del Río Grande se anexionó a los Estados Unidos en virtud del Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo, Henry Clay Davis e Hilaria Davis, residentes de Río Grande City, donaron terrenos para un cementerio municipal en el que empezarían poco después los enterramientos. Davis (1814-1866), veterano de la Guerra de Intervención, e Hilaria de la Garza-Davis se encuentran inhumados en el centro del mismo. También se encuentra enterrado allí el sargento Lino Hinojosa, quien se uniera al ejército de la Unión el 10 de septiembre de 1863 en Brownsville como parte del Segundo de la Caballería Texana de los EE. UU. El cementerio continuó operativo durante la Guerra de Secesión y después de la misma, albergando las tumbas de muchos veteranos de la contienda así como de otras figuras notables de la época.
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Location: Fort Ringgold is located within the city limits of Rio Grande City, Texas, immediately east of the downtown historic district, on the south side of U.S. Highway 83.
Access: The former Fort Ringgold reservation is now the Administrative Campus of the Rio Grande City Independent School District. The fort is open for visitors daily, though vehicle access around the parade ground is restricted on weekdays. Visitors may drive into other areas of the former post.
Contact: For Fort Ringgold and the Robert E. Lee House Museum, contact Mrs. Adelina Villarreal at (956) 488-6036. Note: She is the ONLY contact person for the Robert E. Lee House Museum. She requests that tours of the museum be arranged at least 24 hours in advance.
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Photo courtesy of the Rio Grande City ISD
Jose Lino Hinojosa (left) and his brother in-law in 1863