Marker reads: Juan Jose Hinojosa (1700-1789) was granted land including this site post-humously in 1790. His great-grandson Antonio Balli-Cavazos (1813-1887) was the first to live on the land, which he named Balli San antonio del Esterito Ranch in 1839. He established the family cemetery. The earliest marked grave is that of Francisca Natividad Balli-Rubalcaba. Antonio Balli-Cavazos was laid to rest with his wife Manuela Rubalcaba in 1887. The last burial was that of Apolonio Balli-Salazar in 1956. There are seventeen graves in the Balli Cemetery. The graveyard is all that remains of a 7,000 acre cattle ranch that dominated this part of the Valley for 120 years. (1989)