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Original
handwritten Starr County, Texas cattle brand and marks registration document in
Spanish, signed by Toribio Garcia on Sept. 15, 1874. In the center are
hand-drawn illustrations showing the ear marks and cattle brands for a Hispanic
man and his three hermanos (brothers). One name is mentioned in the opening
paragraph, Jose Maria Garcia Villareal (or Villarreal). The brand designs are
very ornate and reminiscent of the 1700-1800s Spanish/Mexican cattle brands.
The paragraph below the illustrations mentions the Ranchos del Lucero, west of
Matamoras, Mexico, and Buenavista, southwest of Piedras Negras, Mexico, and is
followed by the names of two men, Juan Jose Tijerina and Santos Dimas, Rancho de
Buenavista, Texas. My research indicates there were two ranchos along the
Mexican border with Texas in the State of Nuevo Leon. I could not find a Rancho
de Buenavista for that strip of Texas. In the 1880 census for Texas, 55-year-old
Jose de los Santos Dimas, with wife Laranza, was found listed as a servant,
Starr County; 26-year-old Jose Tijerina was found as a herder, Hidalgo County;
and Jose Ma. Villareal, age 45, was a Sheriff at Rancho Ballenia in Zapata
County. We cannot verify that the three men in the census records are the three
men in the brand document. In addition, we found that a Jose Maria Villareal
served with the Reconstruction Texas State Police in Brownsville from October 1872
to February 1873; this may be the Jose Maria Garcia Villareal mentioned in this
document. Please plan on doing your own research. From an estate sale in San
Antonio, Texas, this document represents a rare find, especially for Spanish,
Mexican, and/or Hispanic cattle brand records, and also for its use during a
turbulent time, the 1870s, along the Texas/Mexico border, when the theft of
cattle was rampant on both sides of the border and/or Rio Grande. Folded into
thirds, the document is stained along the folds, has small tears around the
edges, especially at the folds, and other light to moderate discoloration &
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