PHOTO GALLERY 4
THE
LONGORIA FAMILY
(La Encantada land grant, Brooks County, Texas)
(Click on an image to enlarge)
Family Portraits
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Ponciano Longoria & Maria Rita Villarreal (courtesy Rene Longoria, Jr.) |
Ponciano & Rita's Family |
Eugenio & Ana T. Longoria Family |
Family Life
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| Raul Longoria Treviño, standing in front of a hay stack. The Eugenio Longoria home is in the right background. | Another photo of my Dad, showing his mules and the windmill, probably late 1930's or early 1940's. |
My uncle Osvaldo planting the fields in front of his father Eugenio's house. The larger building in the background is the Longoria school; the smaller one is the students' restroom. (late 1940's.) |
A view of the homes of Raul Longoria Treviño (left) and Eugenio Longoria Villarreal, ca. 1975. Following this road (dirt after this point) about another half mile would take one to the Santa Rita Ranch. |
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| My paternal grandmother, Ana Treviño Vidaurri, with six of her children. Seated, from the left, are Oscar, Osvaldo, Raul, Leonel, grandmother, and Irma. Standing is Odilia. Not present were Ponciano (deceased) and Maria Estella. December 1974 . | My Dad, Raul Longoria Treviño, with his faithful dog, probably returning from a hunt. | Hunting was a favorite pastime of everyone on the ranch, but game was scarce. After an unsuccessful hunt, Raul Noe Longoria Alcalá figured he better bring some wildflowers to appease the waiting cooks. | Every ranch has a dog to warn of intruders and rattlesnakes. This was Spot (note the ear) standing guard with Raul Noe Longoria Alcalá. |
The Longoria Cemetery
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The Eugenio Longoria cemetery, established in 1927. |
The final resting place of Eugenio Longoria and Ana Trevino Longoria, individual headstones in side-by-side graves. |
The first person to be interred in the cemetery was Antonia Vidaurri Trevino, the mother-in-law of Eugenio Longoria. |
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Some of the personalized tombstones
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The monument for my dad Raul Longoria, designed by my brother to reflect Dad's love of ranching. |
The monument for Osbaldo Longoria, who had a great love for deer hunting. |
The monument for Jose Oscar Longoria, auto mechanic and owner of Oscar's Garage in Edinburg. |
The monument for Rudy Schacherl, husband of Elma Longoria. Rudy worked for the King Ranch and his job included trapping coyotes. |
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