Btw, there is still an old Spanish cemetery across the county road from the Mission Candeleria marker. I and sure there are unmarked colonial graves here dating to the 1750’s!!!
Another tidbit of trivia. Noah Smithwick in his monumental memoirs, Evolution of a State, mentions he knew the location of and least one of the "lost” missions. But he would never disclose their location because he felt greedy land speculators would attempt to use their locations to contest grants given to texas revolution veterans.
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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