Mark
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5/1/2017 2:12 PM
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The Houston Chronicle has an article today about how land takings in Starr County are affecting people there. One family that has owned Rio Grande front land dating from a seventeenth century grant from the King of Spain was given a low ball offer for the land. (The United States did not control the area until after the Mexican-American War of 1848. The city of Roma is worried that the wall would hurt their bird sanctuary and cut off their water supply if emergency repairs are needed to the pumps.
You may wonder why I am connecting this story to someone who died a quarter of century ago. The priest who conducted the service talked to me afterwards. The priest was Leonard's nephew and he had his parish in Roma, Starr County, Texas. He mentioned that the holy water splashed on Leonard's coffin had originally come from the Rio Grande via the Roma water supply which is the same water supply as mentioned above. The water had flowed past the Rio Grande and Pecos spots that Leonard had loved.
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