Turns out her great-great-grandparents, who are buried there,
were agents in the little-known underground railroad that led through South Texas to Mexico during the 1800s. Thousands of enslaved people fled plantations to make their way to the Rio Grande, which became a river of deliverance. I don t know why there wasn t anything that we would ve known as we were growing up. It amazes me to learn the underground deal I had no idea at all, says Webber-Vasques, 70, who recently learned the story of her forebear John Ferdinand Webber from her daughter-in-law who has researched family history. I m very proud to be a Webber, she says.
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