Karnes County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Serenil, Nieves 
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Raul Serenil rserenilsr@gmail.com July 14, 2015, 5:09 pm

Cemetery:           Gillette Cemetery, Karnes County Texas
Name:               Nieves Serenil

Date Of Photograph: May 3, 2014
Photo can be seen at:
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Nieves Serenil was my great-great grandfather, born abt. 1823, before the 
battle of the Alamo and the birth of the Republic of Texas in 1836. Nieves was 
the only Serenil survivor of the early 1820 Comanche Indian raids on settlers 
in Texas.  His story was passed down to the Serenil elders which tell that 
after his family was killed, he was taken captive and, lived with the native 
Indians for several years until his escape. Nieves lived in the Bexar, Medina 
and Losoya Texas area with his son Jose De Jesus until the late 1890s before 
moving to Karnes County.

Additional Comments:
This photo was taken at the Gillette Cemetery. The grave is located behind the 
Gillette Cemetery which is already listed by Lisa Dromgoole Adams. It contains 
several graves and includes several of the early ancestral Serenil Family. The 
sad part is that part of the cemetery property was reclaimed and fenced off 
several years ago and only about 30 or so graves remain there. My hope is that 
the remaining property will not be reclaimed and my ancestors will not be lost. 
The entrance to the Gillette Latin Cemetery is on the road on the immediate 
right, along the fence, next to the well-known Gillette Cemetery. This back 
area contains, I believe, the graves of the Hispanic population of Gillette 
Texas

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