Weslaco City Cemetery
Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas
Marker Inscription
The City of Weslaco, named for the W.E. Stewart Land Company, was founded in December 1919. In 1921, the city established a cemetery here, outside the original townsite. The first grave is that of Reuben W. Warren (d. 1921). Also buried here are Weslaco city founders Edmond Cooper Couch (1876-1944) and Robert Lee Reeves (1871-1938). H.E. Bennett platted the burial ground in 1922, and he platted an addition in 1926. Throughout the cemetery, grave markers indicate military service and fraternal organization membership. The City of Weslaco maintains the burial ground of more than 6,000 gravesites. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Weslaco, named for the W.E. Stewart Land Company, was founded in December 1919 as land developers opened the Rio Grande Valley to new settlers. The city laid out this cemetery in 1921 just beyond the original townsite, and its first burial came that same year. Among those interred are city founders Edmond Cooper Couch and Robert Lee Reeves, and the grounds — now holding more than 6,000 graves — are dotted with markers noting military service and fraternal ties.
Why it matters
The cemetery reflects the land-company boom that populated the Lower Rio Grande Valley in the early 20th century, turning ranchland into planned farming towns almost overnight.
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Related people
- · Edmond Cooper Couch
- · Robert Lee Reeves
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