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Ysleta Mission, Mystery solved

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Ysleta Mission, Mystery solved

August 20, 2026

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Dr. W.H. Timmons, professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, uncovered archival documents that resolved a long-standing question about the Church of Ysleta in the Lower Valley of El Paso. A March 21, 1844 report by Ysleta official Ramon Tellez described how an earlier…

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