Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí "Texas' First Cattle Queen," in Roots by the River (Mission, Texas: Border Kingdom, 1978). Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí (1752–1803) was a rancher known as the first "cattle queen" of Texas. She was born in Mexico, in what is now known as Tamaulipas. Her parents, Juan José de Hinojosa and María Antonia Inés Ballí de Benavides, were Spanish aristocrats who had priority rights to extensive land grants and public offices because they were Primitive Settlers. In 1767 her family moved to Reynosa, where her father had been appointed as alcade. Rosa married José María Ballí,
Consuelo Reyes-Calderon Hourwich Reyher. Reyes-Calderon was also a music lover and took singing lessons. She was a long-life friend of Madame Aída Doninelli (1898-1996), a soprano from Guatemala. Reyes-Calderon and Vernon shared a Washington apartment from 1951 until Vernon’s death in 1975. They used to spend time in the summer at Highmeadow, biographer Alma Lutz and Marguerite Smith's country home in Berlin, New York, who were good friends from the National Woman's Party. She became a United States citizen by 1970. When Vernon died in 1975, Reyes-Calderon was noted for her devotion to her companion. According to archive records, she corresponded with