A Forgotten Cemetery In The Dominion: Leon Springs/Aue Rd Cemetery San Antonio, Tx
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Join me while I explore the abandoned/forgotten Leon Springs/Aue Rd cemetery located inside The Dominion subdivision!
A big thank you to my friend who got us into the subdivision :)
#thedominion #abandoned #cemetery
Awesome video sir. Very surprised you were able to get past the guard at gate! 👍🏽
Thank you! I thank my friend with her sweet talking ways for getting us past the security guard so we can view this cemetery
Oh my gosh! I totally stumbled upon your video by accident! Maria Rivas and Indalecio Rivas are my great-grandparents. It saddens me so much to see the state of that cemetery. We have many other relatives buried there as well. Thank you so much for doing this. My mother, now 93, visited their graves there at the Aue (prononced "ow-ee) cemetery in 1997 and it was in much better condition then. The Texas laws state that they have to allow access to all cemeteries, as I understand it. My parents were let in by a maintenance worker for the Dominion who provided them access.
We live in California, but I am interested in finding a way to get the cemetery protected by Bexar County's Historical Commission and perhaps restored. My mother tells me Mr. Aue owned a ranch in the area around the early 1930s (or at least that is when she lived in that area). People who worked on the ranch were given burial plots on his property. Cosmi Arredondo was my second cousin. My mother tells me that my great-grandmother, Maria Rivas, spoke fluent Spanish, English, and German but could not read and write -- nor sign her name. As you may know, google maps does not allow you to walk the streets with the little yellow man because (I assume) the Dominion is a gated, private development. But thank you thank you again, for posting this video (and sneaking in).
That's awesome I'm glad you found this video! Thanks for all the info as well!
Benito W. Perez 1891-1937 (45-46) any relation?
Wow so interesting seeing these forgotten cemetery's
Great video!!! So glad you brought this old cemetery back to life. Love all the details. 👌
growing up there - we pronounced it "Ow-we" We knew some of the older Aue family. They lived in a house near what is now Rudy's (it was across the railroad track).
That could very well be the right pronunciation lol I just took an educated guess on how it's pronounced
Great video. The Hispanic familes buried there were workers and residents from nearby ranches. There was a small community there near Camp Stanley. Unable to afford burials and also due to discrimination, this area was designated as a cemeteray for many of the Hispanics when it was still a ranch. For several years, some of the locals referred to it as the "wetback" cemetery. My grandfather and great-grandfather are buried there along with a few other distant relatives. They are under the names of Montez and Flores. Both residents from that area.
Thank you for the info. Pretty F'd up that people called it the "wetback" cemetery
So the area directly around the cemetery wasn't a community itself, per se, but Leon Springs is just across the creek from the Cemetery. Leon Springs was a pretty important spot on the Fredericksburg Road as a stage stop in the pioneer days. Max Aue (who Aue Road is named after) settled here in the 1840s and his original house still exists in Leon Springs as part of the Rudy's "complex." So is the hotel he built for travelers on the road.
Something I find intriguing is that the cemetery is across the creek from Leon Springs proper. There's an old native/Mexican tradition that you put cemeteries across bodies of water from the community to "keep the spirits away."
Thanks for the info! Didnt know about the tradition of puting cemeteries across bodies of water to keep spirits away.
@@thesaexplorer - there's also another cemetery inside the Dominion if you can ever get back in on Champions Lane, which is the Topperwein Cemetery.
Thanks for the adventure. I myself love searching and exploring historical sites in the SA area. Recently discovered the site of the Battle of Medina, and sites associated with it. Keep it up!
It is, but has been narrowed down to a site off of Bruce rd. and Old Pleasanton rd. by a professor at UT in Austin. Drive out there and see no trespassing signs everywhere.@@erichacker8646
It is interesting to note that all the individuals buried here had Spanish sir names being that many of the land owners in this part of the hill country were German. Would like to learn more about that aspect of this cemetery. Thank you for this fantastic tour of this forgotten piece of history.
From what I understand, there's another family cemetery located in the dominion which is the Toeperwein family cemetery. I'm assuming that these people in the Leon Springs cemetery were share croppers or had their own land here on this part of the dominion. Not so sure exactly...
@@thesaexplorer that would be fascinating if it turns out to be the case. Obviously the Spanish & Mexicans were here in this region well before the Germans came in the mid 19th century, so I’m wondering if there were Hispanic land owners in Leon Springs.
Of course this all belonged to Mexicans before the Alamo . Spanish settlers and Native Americans were here first.
A cemetery in the Dominion. Never expected that. You do a great job of showing the markers, headstones and details of this hidden isolated place in the midst of an elite neighborhood. I suppose the builders did not want to or could not remove the bodies to other cemeteries, so its just tucked away in the cedar wilderness.
Another great video!
Thanks for the support!
Great vid!
Thank you!
Can you do the cemetery that’s a part of brackenridge park. The one with the headless angel in it. Always wondered about that.
I think you're talking about miraflores park on hildebrand. It's just a park with statues, not a cemetery. However that piece of land has interesting history behind it..