Longoria Cemetery
aka Eugenio Longoria
Rachal, Texas
GPS Coords: 26.8900004, -98.2098892
The cemetery is located on private land and you must have permission before visiting.
Shown on most maps as 'Longoria Cemetery', the cemetery should more properly be called 'Eugenio Longoria Cemetery' to distinguish it from the other Longoria cemeteries in the immediate area, all of which are on lands belonging to descendants of Ponciano Longoria and Maria Rita Villarreal. The cemetery is located about 5 miles west of Rachal just off FM 755; it is about one-half mile west of the picnic area on the highway and about 150 feet south of FM 755, hidden from the view of the highway by a dense grove of old mesquite trees and brush.
The cemetery is located on private lands once owned by Eugenio Longoria, eldest son of Ponciano and Maria Rita Longoria, and was established in 1927 upon the death of Antonia Vidaurri de Trevino, mother-in-law of Eugenio Longoria. In earlier years, persons from outside the immediate family were buried in the cemetery but now burial space in the cemetery is available only to descendants of Eugenio and Ana T. Longoria.
Other family cemeteries in the immediate area which may be confused with The Eugenio Longoria cemetery are:
* Santa Rita cemetery, about a half-mile south; burial site of Ponciano Longoria & Maria Rita Villarreal and other family members. Maria Rita Villarreal was a daughter of Gregorio Villarreal, purchaser of the La Encantada and Encino del Pozo land grants in 1872. Ponciano's father purchased one league of the La Encantada land grant from Gregorio Villarreal in 1873, and Ponciano used lands he and his wife inherited plus additional lands he purchased to establish a ranch, which he called 'Santa Rita' in honor of his wife.
* Juan Longoria cemetery, about a quarter-mile east; burial site of Juan Longoria & Maria Leal and other family members. Juan was the second son of Ponciano Longoria and Maria Rita Villarreal.
* Mateo Longoria cemetery (called San Mateo Cemetery), about a half-mile east near the picnic area on FM 755; burial site of Mateo Longoria & Sabina Solis and other family members. Mateo was the third and youngest son of Ponciano Longoria and Maria Rita Villarreal.
Row designations start with Row A as the most westerly row, at the entrance to the cemetery. Graves are arbitrarily assigned numbers from south to north; a letter designation after the grave number indicates the existence of separate graves within a family grave plot.
Many thanks to Raul N. Longoria for his generosity in sharing this file with me for use in the TXGenWeb Project.
Shirley Cullum, Brooks County Coordinator, 2003
© Raul N. Longoria July 1, 2003
Photos
| Name | Birth | Death | Info/Inscriptions | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Trevino de Longoria | 6/16/1887 | 12/13/1978 | A-2b | |
| Cecilia Longoria | 11/22/1941 | 3/08/1949 | Sisters, 2 graves, 1 stone | D-2a |
| Cecelia Longoria | 6/27/1949 | 8/10/1949 | Sisters, 2 graves, 1 stone | D-2b |
| Eugenio V. Longoria | 4/23/1884 | 2/21/1962 | A-2a | |
| Jesus Joel Longoria | 10/12/1950 | 8/15/1996 | A-4 | |
| Jorge Roel Longoria | 4/03/1965 | 10/21/1993 | (cremated) | A-5c |
| Jose Oscar Longoria | 2/26/1922 | 8/02/2003 | C-4 | |
| Jose Oscar Longoria, Jr. | 1/20/1949 | 1/31/1949 | D-3 | |
| Leonel E. Longoria | 4/11/1910 | 8/27/1982 | A-5b | |
| Maria Cadena de Longoria | 7/14/1923 | 6/10/1980 | A-1a | |
| Osbaldo Longoria | 5/14/1920 | 7/08/1994 | (cremated) | A-2c |
| Ponciano N. Longoria | 12/04/1915 | 8/23/1973 | A-1b | |
| Raul Longoria | 3/26/1912 | 12/14/2000 | A-3a | |
| Rosenda Ybarra de Longoria | 3/1/1907 | 3/20/1987 | A-5a | |
| Zoila V. Longoria | 4/9/1923 | 10/9/2009 | (w/o Raul Longoria) | A-3b |
| Celso Villarreal Ramirez | 2/25/1864 | 1/31/1947 | w/o C.V. Ramirez | C-3 |
| Elma Longoria de Schacherl | 2/03/1935 | 10/23/1999 | B-6a | |
| Rudolph J. Schacherl | 10/14/1909 | 3/27/1996 | B-6b | |
| Porfirio S. Soliz | 9/15/1928 | 2/25/1936 | B-1 | |
| Ninfa Trevino | 12/25/1927 | B-5 | ||
| Antonia Vidaurri de Trevino | 10/05/1927 | B-4 | ||
| Amelia Villarreal | 10/16/1905 | 7/16/1942 | C-1 | |
| Arcadia Pena de Villarreal | 1/02/1868 | 9/24/1943 | C-2 | |
| Baudelia Villarreal | 12/05/1917 | 3/18/1938 | Sisters, one grave one stone | B-3 |
| Consuelo Villarreal | 1/15/1925 | 3/18/1938 | Sisters, one grave one stone | B-3 |
| Cristobal Villarreal | 10/12/1942 | Unmarked grave; Inf son of Jacobo & Elvira Villarreal | D-1 | |
| Eduardo Villarreal | 12/04/1892 | 11/18/1934 | B-2 | |
| Unreadable wooden cross | inf daughterof Porfirio Perez & Celia Villarreal | D-4 |