Historical Marker
Cementerio Loma De La Cruz (Hill of the Cross Cemetery)
Historical marker location:
Del Rio, Texas
( from intersection of US 277 and Garza--W. on Garza, S. on Artega, W. on Noriega to Punta Colorado, then over the bridge; continue 100 yds on dirt road and cemetery is on the left
LONG: 100'53.00W
Follow Noriega St. West passing residential area, field etc., cross bridge - 100 yards further are gates to cemetery, Del Rio.)
Marker installed: 1986
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.