San Patricio de Bexar Church at Bexar (present-day Somerset, Texas) began as the Catholic mission to Atascosa and Frio Counties. Located on the Kinney Ranch in South Bexar County, it served the coal mining communities of Bexar and La Colorada. With the arrival of the Artesian Belt Railroad, the town of Bexar declined as its population moved two miles east to Somerset. Many of the early families of Atascosa and South Bexar Counties are contained among this books nearly 10,000 entries, including the Ruiz, Herrera, Navarro, Cotulla, Lytle, Casias, Kinney, Hayden and Vara. This volume contains the complete records of San Patricio de Bexar, plus a modern cemetery survey of its cemetery, an 1876 mission census of Atascosa County and a detailed history of the community.
Paperback: 251 pages.
Language: English.
ISBN-13: 978-0984212125
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 inches
Published: 2014 Alamo Press/Santa Helena
Price: $39.99
DIOS Y TEJAS: ESSAYS ON THE
HISTORY OF VON ORMY, TEXAS
Remembering History
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THE HISTORY and records of SANTISIMA TRINIDAD CHURCH AT PASO DE LAS GARZAS, TEXAS
(PRESENT-DAY VON ORMY, TEXAS)
The History and Records of
Mission San Patricio de Bexar
at Bexar, Texas (present-day Somserset, Texas)
Santísima Trinidad Church at Paso de las Garzas (present-day Von Ormy, Texas) served one of the pioneering Tejano communities of Texas. Located in Bexar County, Texas on the Medina River, this community developed as a ranching center for many of the early families of San Antonio, Texas, including the Ruiz, Herrera, Navarro and Perez families. Contained within these records are the inter-familial relationships that helped forge the Republic of Texas and the development of South Bexar County into the present. This volume contains the complete records of Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad, plus modern surveys of its two cemeteries, US Census records and a detailed history of the community.
Paperback: 327 pages.
Language: English.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9842121-0-1
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 inches
Published: 2012 Alamo Press/Santa Helena
Price: $39.99
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Von Ormy, Texas was founded as a Tejano ranching community along the Medina River thirteen miles southwest of San Antonio in the mid-1700s. Its strategic location near San Antonio and along the main trade route to the south have attracted interest and settlers for nearly three centuries. Dios y Tejas provides a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of this South Texas town whose residents have been influential from the Texas Revolution to the Liberty City movement. Readers will find biographies of Blas Herrera, Francisco Antonio Ruiz, Samuel McColluch, Jr., Count Norbert Von Ormay, Enoch Jones, Rachael Quintana, Ella Fischer and other historical figures. Other essays include the environmental history of Southwest Bexar County, Historic Native Peoples of the area, Colonial Roads and River Crossings, Tejano support for Texas Independence, the Comanche Expedition of 1839, the Castle on the Medina, the Medina Guards and Civil War, Mission San Patricio de Bexar, the Medina and Von Ormy Schools, Von Ormy Cottage Sanitarium, Kelly Field and the Rise of the Mexican-American Middle Class, Repatriations, Water Wars and much more. The history of Von Ormy, Texas is as rich and unique as the Lone Star State.
Limited Edition Hardback: 502 pages
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0-9842121-5-6
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 inches
Published: 2016 Alamo Press
Price $60.00, plus tax and shipping
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