Physical Description1 file.
Note:This file contains the correspondence and documentation for the Texas Historical Commission's designation of the cemetery located 5 miles south of San Marcos, at County Road 266/Old Bastrop Hwy and Posey Road.
Note:San Pedro Cemetery was established in the early part of this century when the need arose for a cemetery which could easily be accessible to the people and which would better serve the Hispanic citizens of the Centerpoint area. Mr. Ismael Rosales told us his father, Luis Rosales (1882-1955), helped to collect money from the area residents to purchase the property for the cemetery. Both Luis and his wife, Ester, are buried in the cemetery. The cemetery covers approximately three acres of land. Volunteers clean it on a regular basis. There is a cemetery association. The cemetery has many old stones in it, and most all stones are written in Spanish. Many of the older stones are crumbling as they seem to have been made of concrete and they have not withstood the weather for much more than 25 to 30 years. The earliest date we found on a stone was 1910- on the grave of Narcisco Barrera, who died at the age of 79 years.This cemetery is referred to as the "Cry Baby Cemetery" by almost everyone in this area of the county. Very few people we spoke to at first knew the real name of the cemetery. There seems to be some sort of superstition associated with the cemetery, but we did not investigate that aspect of its history. We found one stone for a gentleman who lived to be over one hundred years of age -Porfirio Vargas (6-27-1880/12-27-1980).We are thankful to Mr. Isrnael Rosales for information regarding this cemetery and to Cassia Hodge, Jean Shand, and Frances Stovall for helping copy the inscriptions.--Hays County Historical Commission cemeteries website.
