This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Canales, Contreras, Saldana, Salinas, Trueheart Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GhB.2ACE/70.72.1 Message Board Post: Additional information that may be of interest. Owners of El Lucero Ranch were Juan & Meliton Cross. This ranch was located around the old Tejon Road in Cameron County. I heard that the original Cross who came to the Rio Grande Valley may have been black. There is still Cross family in Matamoros.