Juan Jose Solis, grantee of Porción 107 in Starr County and founder of El Soliseño, Mexico, was patriarch of the Solis family in this area. His grandson Francisco (1801-1876) and Francisco's wife Anastacia Rivas de Solis (b. 1808) were early residents of Point Isabel and Brownsville before later settling in La Feria. Their son Lazaro (1840-1904) and his brother-in-law Ysabel Cantu (b. 1849) bought about 5,000 acres of the La Feria grant in July 1898 and established the Solis Ranch, where the families raised cattle, horses, and goats and grew several crops. After Lazaro died suddenly while visiting family in Point Isabel, his body was returned to the ranch for burial, a common practice in that era, becoming the first burial in Solis Cemetery, also known as San Francisco Cemetery. In 1905, Lazaro’s widow Francisca (1853-1911) partitioned his land among herself and their seven children. Lazaro and Francisca’s hand-lettered concrete Spanish-language grave marker is signed “Juan, Mateo and Gumercindo del mísmo appelído.” In 1929, the cemetery was surveyed and platted, and a public road was developed to provide access. The active family burial ground covers more than three acres and contains more than 300 graves, most marked with wood, stone, bronze, or concrete. It is the resting place of known and unknown people of Hispanic, Anglo, and African-American descent, of as many as five generations of the Solis family, and of veterans of World War II and the Korean War, testifying to generations of local ranching and family traditions.