#52Ancestors (2014) – Page 7 – Colleen & Jeff's Roots

#52Ancestors: My 3rd Great Grandmother, Maria Eutimia Sanches Nieto

My 9th week in Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” family history blogging challenge.

The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.

This week’s ancestor is my 3rd great grandmother, Maria Eutimia Sanches Nieto. Our family knew her by the name of Eutimia, although none of us actually new her. And none of us even know much about her. I have almost zero genealogical information on her.

Eutimia was the mother of Maria Aurelia Compean (1858-1963) — Aurelia to her family — who I believe was the oldest member of my father’s family to immigrate from Mexico in the mid-to-late 1910s. I do not think Eutimia immigrated with the family. Since her daughter Aurelia was already in her late 50s or early 60s when she immigrated, Eutimia would have been awfully old at that time. Although, her daughter Aurelia lived to be 105 years old, so it’s possible her mother Eutimia had those same hearty long-living genes and could have made the trip. I just don’t think she did. None of the 1920s documents I have found of her family in California list Eutimia living with her children or grandchildren.

Neither my father nor I had ever heard Eutimia’s name until 2003, when my dad called the mortuary that handled her daughter Aurelia’s burial here in Southern California to find out if they had any information about Aurelia’s birth or parents. The kind mortuary employee told my father that Aurelia’s records list parents Eutimia Sanches and Santiago Compean. We already knew Aurelia and her own daughter were from San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

I immediately sought help from my local Family History Center. They steered me to towards the Mexico church records on microfilm. Which were all in Spanish (I took 3 years of Spanish ages ago, no help now). These records are now digitized through FamilySearch, but not yet indexed. I spent several Saturdays bent over a microfilm reader desperately looking for my family names. And I managed to find the marriage record entry for Eutimia Sanches and Santiago Compean. Eutimia and Santiago were married either 14 September or 24 September (the date is hard to read) in 1859 in Armadillo de los Infante, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The same Mexico municipality from where all of my Nieto family seems to have lived. No church or parents names.

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That was the extent of information I had on Eutimia until November of last year, when I started searching on FamilySearch again for her unique name of Eutimia. I scored on finding a baptism record for her. Eutimia was baptized 30 December 1835 at Santa Isabel Church in Armadillo de los Infante, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. This is the same church where Eutimia’s granddaughter Maria Nieto married Jose Robledo in 1908. And it lists her parents’ names! An even bigger score. Eutimia’s parents were Diego Sanches and Maria De Los Delores Nieto. Again with the Nietos. It seems my entire Mexico family kept marrying into Nietos.

Present day photo of Santa Isabel Church. Not sure if this is the same structure that existed when Eutimia and Santiago married there in 1835. Photo courtesy of Armadillo de los Infante.

This baptism record lists Eutimia’s full name as Maria Eutimia Sanches Nieto. It appears that like her daughter Aurelia, Eutimia was given the first name of Maria, but went by her second unique given name. And I had forgotten about the Mexican tradition of using the father and mother’s surname. Sanches is her father’s name, Nieto is her mother’s name.

Searching further for other records referencing her parents’ names, I find a baptism record for what appears to be a sister, Maria Apolinaria Sanches Nieto, baptized at the same church six months earlier on 30 July 1834. Since Apolinaria was baptized first, I assume she is an older sister. And since the two girls were baptized just six months apart, I feel confident Eutimia was born sometime after 30 July 1834 since the two daughters were not christened on the same date. This would place Eutimia’s birth between 30 July 1834 and 29 December 1835 (she would not have been baptized the same date she was born).

Continued research on my Mexico line is going to be difficult. I need to get more familiar with what types of online records exist, and where, apart from what FamilySearch offers (Ancestry offers little more). And I will need my fluent Spanish-speaking/reading/writing dad to help me locate physical records in Mexico, and correspond with those agencies. Dad retired last year, though, so he’s got the time to help me now 🙂

#52Ancestors: My Great Grandfather Jose Robledo (1875-1937), Still a Brick Wall

My 8th week in Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” family history blogging challenge.

The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.

This week’s ancestor is my great grandfather Jose Robledo (1875-1937). Jose was married to Maria Nieto (1887-1974), my great grandmother who raised my father. Jose “Joe” died before my father was born, so Dad never knew him and knows very little at all about Jose. We do not know his birth place or his parents’ names. Unlike his wife Maria, I have not been able to find any record of him on any of the Mexico parish or civil registers, except for his marriage record.

Jose married my great grandmother Maria Nieto in 1908 at Santa Isabel Church in Armadillo de los Infante, a municipality in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. That is the only record I find of him in Mexico. Searching for records is a bit tough without parents’ names to cross-search by.

While I have his wife Maria’s border crossing record (October 27, 1915, in Laredo, Texas), Jose does not appear to have crossed with her and their baby Refugio. I have been unsuccessful in finding any immigration records for him, and my family does not believe he became a U.S. citizen. His wife Maria didn’t become one until 1955.

The first U.S. record I find for Jose is his 1918 World War I draft registration card. I blogged about that in 2012. He lived in Long Beach, California at this time. He was employed as a laborer with the City of Los Angeles, working for the San Pedro Harbor Department.

Joe still lived at this same Long Beach address with his family at the time of the 1920 U.S. Census. He and his family moved to Los Angeles by the 1930 U.S. Census.

He apparently died 4 July 1937. The wife of his sole living child told me that Jose died of pneumonia. She also told me that Joe and Maria lived on a large hacienda in Mexico, and that he never recovered from losing everything and having to settle for menial jobs to support his family when he came to the U.S.. Dad has told me that his father told him stories about traveling with his own father (Jose) as a child seeking migrant laborer jobs.

Because Jose has been a brick wall for so long, I recently ordered an Ancestry DNA kit to test my dad. While this won’t identify Jose’s parents, it will hopefully tell us a bit more about our Robledo origins.

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#52Ancestors: William Pace, Member of George Washington’s Revolutionary War Elite Bodyguard Unit

Washington's Life Guard — Banner of the Guard, illustrated by Benson Lossing, 1852.
Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons.

My 7th week in Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” family history blogging challenge.

The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.

This week’s ancestor is my husband’s 5th great grandfather, William Henry Pace (1745-1815). I have not spent much of my own time researching this line of my husband’s lineage because it has already been heavily documented and DAR certified by other family historians due to the family’s, and in particular, this ancestor’s, role in the Revolutionary War.

But, in honor of yesterday’s federal holiday celebrating the birthday of President George Washington, I am sharing this particular era in William Henry Pace’s history. Because it is possible that were it not for my husband’s ancestor, Washington might not have lived to become our nation’s founding President.

Joining the Continental Army

William Henry Pace, from Goochland, Virginia, enlisted 23 January 1777 for a 3-year stint in the 14th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army (Godfrey, 1904) as a Private under the command of Captain Henry Conway and Colonel Charles Lewis (Godfrey and DAR). According to the FamilySearch Wiki, Captain Conway was in charge of the 4th Company.

Formation of the Commander-In-Chief’s Guard

Almost a year prior, on 11 March 1776, General George Washington–while overseeing the Siege of Boston–issued a General Order to his commanding officers directing them to select four men from each Continental Army regiment to form Washington’s personal guard (Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association).

The unit was to assemble the next day at Army headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Washington’s Order gave specific instructions as to what type of men he was looking for.

His Excellency depends upon the Colonels for good Men, such as they can recommend for their sobriety, honesty, and good behaviour; he wishes them to be from five feet, eight Inches high, to five feet, ten Inches; handsomely and well made, and as there is nothing in his eyes more desireable, than Cleanliness in a Soldier, he desires that particular attention may be made, in the choice of such men, as are neat, and spruce.(General Order)

This elite bodyguard unit has been referred to by many titles. But the most common seem to be the formal name of Commander-In-Chief’s Guard used by the commanding officer, and the less formal name of Life Guard used by the enlisted men.

Most of the original Life Guard did not re-up for this assignment after the initial required one year term. Only a few volunteers remained by January 1777 when the Army was encamped at their Morristown, New Jersey winter quarters, requiring Washington to call up the formation of another guard unit (Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association).

Joining the Commander-In-Chief’s Guard

Just three months after enlisting in the regular Continental Army, William Henry Pace was transferred on 6 May 1777 to to join this new guard unit in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of Captain Caleb Gibbs (DAR and Godfrey).

Godfrey provides a detailed account of Pace’s service in the Guard unit:

(June and July 1777): Sick in the hospital.
(11 September 1777): Battle of Brandywine in Delaware.
(4 October 1777): Battle of Germantown in Pennsylvania.
(28 June 1778): Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey.
(18 January 1779): Reenlisted and took a 110 day furlough.
(1 September 1779): Returned from furlough.
(7 June 1780): Battle of Connecticut Farms in New Jersey.
(3 July 1781): Skirmish of King’s Bridge in New Jersey.
(19 October 1781): Battle of Yorktown, in Virginia
(4 June 1783): Promoted to Sergeant.
(6 June 1783): Furloughed in Newburgh, New York, until ratification of the peace treaty.
(3 November 1783): Discharged.

Pace, along with the Guard unit, wintered with Washington and the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the brutal winter of 1777-1778 (Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association).

William Pace Sr. Headstone — Pace is buried at at the Jones Cemetery in Scotts Valley, Virginia. Courtesy of Find A Grave.

William Pace Memorial Bridge — A commemorative sign marks the road along the cemetery. Courtesy of Find A Grave.

Sources Used

“General Order, 11 March 1776,” The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 4, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office).

Godfrey, C. E. (1904). The Commander-in-chief’s Guard, Revolutionary War. Washington, D. C.: Stevenson-Smith company. Retrieved from http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008555358

Lossing, B. J. (1852). The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence. Harper & Bros.

Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. (n.d.). Life Guards. George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Retrieved February 18, 2014, from http://www.mountvernon.org/educational-resources/encyclopedia/life-guards

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. (n.d.). Ancestor Search | Pace, William. DAR Genealogical Research System. Database. Retrieved from http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm

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#52Ancestors: Scandal! My 2nd Great Grandmother’s Illegitimate Son, Herbert Gerald Allen

Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913. Courtesy of Ancestry.com.

My 6th week in Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” family history blogging challenge.

The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.

This week’s ~~ancestor~~ relation is my great grand uncle, Herbert Gerald ALLEN (1889 – ?), born in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.

Herbert first landed on my radar back in 2012, when I came across the Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913 database on Ancestry while searching for information about his mother Anna Sophia ALLEN (1871 – ?), my 2nd great grandmother (called “Mamie Grandma” by my mother and her siblings). But since I had never heard his name before, I ignored the record as a possible mistake. I have only ever heard of Mamie Grandma’s two other children Agnes Viola Elizabeth Maud MARA (aka “Viola”, 1893 – 1971), my great grandmother, and Viola’s younger brother William James MARA (1894 – 1952).

While reviewing past found documents a few weeks ago in preparation for my trip these past 8 days to the Family History Library in conjunction with RootsTech, I pulled up this Ontario, Canada Births record again for further review. The record clearly lists my 2nd great grandmother Anna Sophia as the mother (at 3 months shy of her 18th birthday) and lists her mother as the informant. But no father is listed, and the baby is branded as illegitimate on the record. Mamie Grandma had a child out of wedlock as a teenager, and either did not know the name of the father or just would not list the name of the father.

I asked my mom about Herbert, and Mom confirmed she had never heard her mother, grandmother, or Mamie Grandma talk about Anna Sophia having another son. Yet her grandmother, Viola, talked often of her younger brother William.

To complicate matters further, Herbert shows up on the 1891 Canadian census, at 1 year old, in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. He lives with his birth mother Anna Sophia. But he is listed as the “son” of Anna’s parents William Barnabas Allen (1845 – 1916) and Lucy Jane Allen (1846 – 1931), with William being the head of the household. Was this a mistake on the part of the census taker and the person in the household who talked to the census taker? Or were Anna Sophia’s parents attempting to raise Herbert as their own?

Herbert drops off the face of the map (at least, my family history map) after this census. He does not show up on the next census in the household of William and Lucy Jane (his grandparents). His mother Anna Sophia married a year later, gave birth to Viola the year following, and then gave birth to William the year after. She too disappears for a while. So I have no idea what happened to Herbert. Since Viola never talked about him, to her descendants, either a) she never knew her older brother Herbert, or b) she knew but did not have a relationship with him and was ashamed of his illegitimate status. So, was he put up in an orphanage? Adopted out? Did he continue to live with his mother and younger siblings?

Regardless of what happened to Herbert, it had to be very difficult to grow up in the late 1800s and early 1900s under the label of “illegitimate”, and it had to be even more difficult for his mother Anna Sophia to go through a teenage pregnancy at this period in history.

Allen family on the 1891 Canadian Census. Courtesy of Ancestry.com.

#52Ancestors: Lt. Colonel William Wallace Greene, M.D.

My 5th week in Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” family history blogging challenge.

The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.

This week’s ancestor is my husband’s grandfather, William Wallace “Wallace” Greene (1908-2003), who my husband’s family believes shares a common ancestor with Revolutionary War Hero Major General Nathanael Greene (although I have not proven or disproven that yet through evidence). In preparing for my visit to the Family History Library this week during RootsTech, I have been going through family files passed down by my father-in-law, and came across this biography written by my father-in-law before Wallace died in 2003.

So, I am cheating a bit here since I do not have to write a history myself. I hope my husband, his brother, and his cousins know how lucky they are to have this type of history compiled while their grandfather was still alive. I wish I had this gift for any of my grandparents.

Dr. William Wallace Greene was born on August 26, 1908, in Phoenix, Arizona, son of William Wallace Greene (1869-1944) and Veronica (Dorris) Greene (1883-1982). He attended McKinley Grammar School through 3rd grade, and Monroe Grammar School through 8th grade. He took a college prep program at Phoenix Union High School, during which time he worked as a stockboy at S.H. Kress. In his junior and senior year summers he worked for Valley Bank in Phoenix, first as a bank runner, then as a book-keeper running a posting machine. He said he almost went into banking because he enjoyed this job.

Willieam Wallace Greene 1929 Stanford — The Stanford Quad yearbook, Stanford University, 1929. Image courtesy of Ancestry.com.

In 1925, at the age of 16, he went to the University of Redlands as a pre-medical student. At Redlands he was on the track team (ran the half-mile against UCLA), and was on the Freshman and Varsity Debating team. He won entrance into Phi Kappa Delta, the national debating fraternity. He also was admitted to Theta Alpha Phi, the national drama fraternity, for his efforts doing scenery and so on. He joined Alpha Gamma Nu, a local social fraternity and the Pre-medical fraternity while at Redlands as well. To support himself he waited tables at the men’s dining room in the dormitory. He attended Redlands through 1927.

William Wallace Greene Jean Alice Harless Honeymoon — Honeymooning in Arizona, after their quick weekend wedding.

In Fall 1927, he matriculated at Stanford University as a premedical student. For the first six months he lived at Encina Hall, and then pledged Phi Sigma Kappa. He also belonged to Phi Rho Sigma (medical fraternity) and played the baritone horn in the Stanford Marching Band. He entered medical school (at Stanford)in 1928 and received his A.B. in Pre-Clinical Sciences in 1929. His internship was spent 1932-33 at Lane-Stanford Hospital in San Francisco where he also met Jean Alice Harless (1912-2011) who was in nursing school. She became his wife on May 18, 1933, the same year he was awarded the M.D. degree. They went to Baltimore during 1933-34, where he was an intern in surgery at Johns Hopkins. 1934-35, he was back at Lane-Stanford as assistant resident in surgery. 1935-36, he was senior house officer in surgery at San Francisco Hospital (Stanford Service), and 1936-37, he served as resident in surgery at the same hospital.

Stanford Lane Hospital — Stanford-Lane Hospital in San Francisco. Courtesy of Stanford Medical History Center.

Wallace (he preferred to go by this name) began his private medical practice in San Francisco in 1937, with a specialization in abdominal surgery. The same year he joined the part-time faculty of Stanford Service as Instructor of Surgery, a position he held until 1941. Then life changed. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he knew that his country would be needing medical personnel. On April 6, 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was given a commission as Major, assigned as a surgeon in the Medical Corps with the 59th Evacuation Hospital. Most of his time in the Army was spent in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Germany. He was discharged with the cessation of action in the european part of World War II, in September 1945. He had attained the ran of Lt. Colonel. He returned to San Francisco and resumed his medical career in private practice. Prior to leaving for the service Wallace and Jean had two children [names, dates, location omitted for privacy reasons].

59th Evacuation Hospital. Courtesy of Stanford Medical History Center.

Wallace’s son recently told me that his father said many of the doctors in the 59th Evac came from Stanford. They all joined up together.

With his return to private practice, he also resumed teaching part-time with the Stanford Service as Assistant Clinical Professor or Surgery from 1946-49. From 1949-61, he was Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, again at Stanford Service. When Stanford moved its medical school to Palo Alto, he became Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery for the medical school at University of California at San Francisco, where he served through 1971.

William Wallace Greene and Jean Alice Harless — Wallace and his wife Jean, in practice together.

Wallace and Jean moved from San Francisco to Tiburon (Marin County, California) in 1961, but Wally kept his practice in San Francisco. In 1971, they moved to Kauai (Hawaii) where he took the position as Medical Director and Surgeon at G.N. Wilcox Hospital in Lihue. He went into semi-retirement in 1976, and finally retired in December 1981, whereupon he and Jean returned to California and bought a home in Oakmont near Santa Rosa.

William Wallace Greene and Jeff Greene — Wallace with two of his grandsons, my husband (middle) and brother-in-law. I just love this photo! The boys are obviously pestering their grandfather while he tries to read the paper.

William Wallace Greene Jean Alice Harless — Wallace and his bride Jean, late in life.

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#52Ancestors: Discovering The Name Of My 2nd Great Grandfather, Joseph Kennedy!

My 4th entry in Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks family history blogging challenge.

The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.

My 4th ancestor is my 2nd great grandfather, Joseph Kennedy (1876-?). No, not the father of the U.S. President (although my conservative grandmother used to like to tease my conservative grandfather that he was related to the liberal Kennedy clan).

My Joseph Kennedy is the father of Sarah Kennedy (?-1930), of whom I know very little because she (and her husband) died and orphaned my grandfather Michael John Flanagan (1927-1997) when a toddler. Grandpa knew nothing about his grandfather, other than that he thought his last name was Kennedy. Until recently, I was not even sure if Kennedy was Sarah’s maiden name…I kept hearing the surnames Kennedy and Ward applied to her prior to her marriage to Grandpa’s father. In March 2012, I finally found Sarah’s marriage records: to Patrick Thomas Flanagan in 1925, and first to Frank J. Ward in 1913. Sarah identifies her father as Joseph Kennedy on both marriage records, and identified her birthplace as Cumberland [in Allegany County] Maryland.

With those marriage records providing his name and my first clues, I went in search of a father-daughter combination of Joseph Kennedy and Sarah Kennedy on the 1900 U.S. Census–the first Census on which Sarah would have been enumerated, based on her estimated birth year–in Maryland. I found them about a week later. According to that Census (taken 6 June 1900):

The family lived in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland. No street name or number.
Joseph and Sarah (age 1) lived alone, even though Joseph is listed as married.
Joseph is described as: the head of household; white; born October 1876 (age 23); married for 3 years; born in Maryland, father born in Maryland, mother born in Virginia; a coal minter (but unemployed for 2 months); able to read, write, and speak English; and renting a house.

Census image — Courtesy of Ancestry.com. Click image to view a larger copy.

I found a possible lead, at the same time, for Joseph on the 1880 U.S. Census in Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland. Joseph’s age and the birthplace of his parents jive with what was recorded on the 1900 U.S. Census. But I need to do a bit more cross-referencing before I chalk this up to a strong lead. If only that elusive 1890 Census were available…

I still need to prove through vital records that Joseph is indeed Sarah’s father, and that he is my 2nd great grandfather, but I feel good about my hunch, at least as far back as the 1900 Census (and I hope to get some of that documentation during my visit to the Family History Library next week for RootsTech!). I feel less sure about the 1880 Census connection, but will keep plugging away to find corroborating evidence.

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#52Ancestors: My Great-Grandmother Victoria Jimenez

My third week in Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” family history blogging challenge.

The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.

This week’s ancestor is my great-grandmother Victoria Jimenez (b. ca. 1891), who I believe is the mother of my lost grandmother Rosie Salas (b. ca. 1923). I do not yet have a birth certificate or baptism certificate that officially documents the connection, but I have a very strong hunch and the beginnings of a biographical profile, pieced together from U.S. Census records. And daughter Rosie lists a Victoria Jimenez and Estevan Salas, both from New Mexico, as her parants on her marriage records to my grandfather.

My first clue to this connection, and of Victoria’s name, came from the family’s 1940 U.S. Census record showing Victoria living in Coachella (Riverside County), California with her three children Rosie Salas, Richard Coleman, and David Coleman. Victoria is listed as the head of household, widowed, 48 years old, born about 1892, born in New Mexico, and lived in Phoenex, Arizona in 1935.

The 1930 U.S. Census shows Victoria living in Orme (Maricopa County), Arizona with her three children Rosie Salas, Richard Coleman (head of household), David Coleman, and three of David’s juvenile cousins. Victoria is listed as widowed, 39 years old, born about 1891, and born in New Mexico.

A 1921 Phoenix (Maricopa County), Arizona city directory records Victoria living in that city with her still-alive husband Esteban Salas.

Victoria and her husband Estevan Salas show up together on the 1920 U.S. Census, living in Deming (Luna County), New Mexico with Victoria’s sons Richard and David from a previous marriage. Their daughter Rosie is not born yet. Victoria is described as 29 years old, and born about 1891 in New Mexico.

When the 1910 U.S. Census was recorded, Victoria was living in Mogollon, Socorro County (became Catron County in 1921), New Mexico with her previous husband David Coleman, her husband’s father, and her husband’s older brother. Their boys were not yet born. Victoria was described as 19 years old, and born about 1891 in New Mexico.

This week I found Victoria and husband David Coleman on BYU-Idaho’s Western States Marriage Record Index. They were married 11 November 1909 in Silver City (Grand County), New Mexico. Both list Silver City as their residence.

And although I don’t have a husband or child’s name to cross check against, I think I found Victoria on the 1900 Census living in San Juan (Grand County), New Mexico. She seems the right age (10 years old, born February 1890), still shows New Mexico as the birthplace, and the residence is in the same county where she married David Coleman in 1909. If this is the same Victoria, her parents are Francisco and Clara Jimenes. Siblings living here include brother Ramon (age 18), sister Albina (16), sister Petra (12), and sister Antonia (8).

I need to obtain the actual documents to investigate a bit further, but the California Death Index shows a Victoriana Coleman/Jimenez, born about 1890 in New Mexico. If this is my Victoria, she died 22 August 1940 (just a few months after the 1940 Census) in Los Angeles (Los Angeles County), California. This is almost two years before her daughter Rosie’s marriage to my grandfather. And if this is my Victoria, she was buried at Artesia Cemetery in Cerritos (Los Angeles County, California).