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One the road
to Panna Maria,
you'll pass a cemetery on your right. This small, but well-populated
cemetery had a poignant founding.
Three year-old
Christobal Guerra Jr. was bringing water to his father while he
was plowing a field for the landowner. Somehow his presence frightened
the animals pulling the plow and the boy was trampled to death in
front of his father.
The boy was buried where he died and the landlowner donated the
site for a cemetery. Over the years it more and more graves were
added. The migrant workers from Mexico who worked on the ranches
and farms of Karnes County and had the misfortune of dying far from
home at least had a way to be together in death.
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