E. D. P.
JUAN HUISAR
Fallecio
el dia 30 Marco 1893
A LA EDAD DE
59 Anos.
translation:
R. I. P. [E.D.P. translates to "in peace, rest" or "en paz, descanse"]
Juan Huisar
Died
on the day 30 March 1893
At the age of
59 years
This gravestone is in the small burial plot by the front
door of the mission church of San Jose and San Miguel inside the Mission San
Jose in San Antonio, Texas. This small
plot is all that is left when the mission was restored by Works Progress
Administration workers during the Great Depression. The dead buried here long ago were removed to
another location during the restoration, but two grave markers remain to mark
the burial ground. One is unmarked except for an iron cross, and
the other is this stone for Juan Huisar.
The famous Rose Window inside the mission church was created
by Native American Pedro Huizar. The
gravestone of Juan Huizar is believed to be the grandson of the stained glass window
artist. According to a tree found at
Ancestry.com, Juan Huizar was born 8 March 1833 in Texas, son of Serefino
Huizar (b. 1807) and Olalia Flores Trinidad Garcia*. He
was the grandson of Jose Antonio Pedro Huzar (1740 – 1798) and Maria Francisca
Teodora Guerrero. “Pedro, according to
the Bexar archives, 1789, was Spanish Alcalde of the Concepcion Mission in
1795. His survey for irrigation from the
San Antonio River is mentioned in the Nacogdoches Archives, March 26,
1791. The Census reports for 1792 and
1793, Bexar Archives, mention Pedro Huizar, the carpenter, who was born in
1740, at Aguascalientes…” [from With the Makers of San Antonio, Genealogies
of the early Latin, Anglo-American, and German Families, 1937, page 137, available to read online at
Ancestry.com]
Juan Huisar married Justa Gomez Aguilar in Bexar County,
Texas on 12 February 1854. They had
three daughters: Trinidad, Melchora and
Catarina. Records of the Confederate
Civil War Soldiers in Texas show a Juan Huisa mustered in as a private in
Ragsdale’s Battalion of the Texas Cavalry.
This might be the same man.
“San Antonio Missions preserve Native American
history in Texas’s first World Heritage Site”, by Tracy L. Barnett, March 10,
2016, Washington Post accessed April 1, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/san-antonio-missions-preserve-native-american-history-at-the-nations-newest-world-heritage-site/2016/03/10/69356002-deed-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html
* UPDATED 9 October 2016 - see the comment below by "EC"
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Juan Huisar, buried at the San Jose Mission in San Antonio, Texas", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 26, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/04/tombstone-tuesday-juan-huisar-buried-at.html: accessed [access date]).
I enjoyed your article. It was nice seeing the photo of the headstones. One small correction.
ReplyDeleteJuan de Dios Huisar (1833 - ?) was the only child of Seferino Huisar and Trinidad Garcia. Seferino's second wife was Oalia Flores. They had 9 children. Juan and his half brother Vicente (1844 - 1910) my gggrandfather both served in Ragsdale's.
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DeleteHi EC, Actually, Juan Huisar also had an older sister Dolores (Born 1832. One of my 2nd Great Grand Mothers). I have copies of the land records from the San Jose mission where property owned by Juan's father (Seferino) were deeded to Dolores's children of 3 marriages. She was widowed three times. Her first husband (Rosaleo Guerrero) my 2nd great grand father also served on the Union Side during the civil war (1st Texas Cav). Juan and Rosaleo (Brother-in-law against Brother-in law). Juan's wife Justa Aguilar De Huizar is also listed in the same land record owning property next to the property left to the children. Trinidad Guerrero daughter of Dolores is my Great Grand Mother.
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