"There is a peculiar fitness that here in a lonely spot among the mesquite trees, within calling distance of the spot where once stood the first house in Travis county, are buried together all the dead members of the Hornsby family. In their lives, amid these very scenes, they did much to make Texas history and pave the way for those who followed in the more secure paths of civilization.  It is meant that they should lie here in perpetuity, the little forest of their headstone serving as a lasting memorial, not only to their own bones, but to the vivid scenes and stirring times in which they took so large a part."

--Edward Dealey, 1921

Dallas Morning News