Jose Modesto Romero
& Maria Moncallo
of Rawlins, Carbon,
Wyoming
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| Betty Cook Romero, Joe Romero, Rosie Romero, Bill Romero, Pat Romero, Modesto Romero, Mary Moncallo Romero, Alice Romero, and Charles Romero, 1943 Clifton, Colorado |
Jose Modesto Romero was born 22 October 1901 in Agua Negra, Mora County, New Mexico, the son of Ricardo Romero and Maria Librada Romero and god son of Andres Trujillo and Leanor Trujillo of Agua Negra. He was Baptized 9 November at the Church of Santa Gertrudis in the town of Mora. He was called “Joe Romero” but in this passage I will refer to him as “Joe Modesto”. Certainly he knew his Grandparents Antonio de Jesus Romero and Gregoria Vigil Romero who were still alive in Holman [Agua Negra] after his father left for Wyoming when Joe Modesto was a teenager but like most youth did not know much about his relatives. He may have even known his mother’s parents Jesus Maria Romero and Alta Gracia Maes. They acted as godparents to Joe Modesto sister Juanita Romero when he was 10 years old and Jesus Romero did not die until 1937 and Alta Gracia in 1941.
Joe Modesto Romero
spent his childhood days in the countryside near the foothills of the eastern
slopes of the Sange de Cristo mountains.
Growing up he helped herd livestock and helped out on his father's farm. He is listed in the 1910 census of Mora
County, New Mexico as a 9 year old living in his father’s household. His father
was a farmer listed in “Precinct 9 Agua Negra” as the 116 household enumerated
when actually the community had been renamed Holman after a Anglo family. His
father’s parents were listed as household 105 and Aunt Adelaide at household
108 and an Aunt Virginia at household 115 next to his father. This indicated that Joe Modesto grew up
surrounded by his relatives.
He was too young to
have had to register for the draft during World War I as his older brothers did
as he was only 17 when the war ended in 1918. At that time many residents of
Mora County were being enticed to Rawlins, Wyoming by the large sheep companies
as well as working for the Union Pacific Railroad. Mora County was increasingly
becoming a depressed region with little opportunities to make a living.
In late 1919 or early
1920, the family traveled by railroad to Rawlins, Wyoming where Joe Modesto
Romero father found work and where he grew to young manhood in a predominately
Western Anglo-American community. In February
1920, Joe Modesto was enumerated still in his father’s household living at 922
Spruce Street. There were 14 people enumerated in the house his father was
renting and Modesto was listed as 19 years old, unemployed and “unable to read
or write” which was probably inaccurate as it simply meant English.
The 1920’s was a period
of Prohibition where the possession of alcohol was illegal nationwide. All
former saloons and bars were shut down however alcohol was still being consumed
by bootlegging and illegal stills for the cattlemen, sheep herders, railroaders
and oil field workers.
When Joe Modesto Romero
was 22 years old he courted and married another transplanted New Mexican an 18
year old named Maria "Mary" Moncallo.
She was born 26 June 1905 at Las Vegas, New Mexico, the daughter of
Gumario Moncallo and Paz de Herrera. Her
father had passed away on 12 December 1906 at LeDoux, Mora County, New Mexico.
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| Maria Moncallo and Modesto Romero |
“By private letter
addressed to us by Florencio Moncallo from Puerto de Luna, we are informed that
on the 12th of last month, a brother Don Gumario Moncallo passed away in Le
Doux, Mora, leaving his wife Dona Paz H de Moncallo, a widow, two siblings and a
long list of relatives in deep pain.” El
Independiente Thu, Jan 10, 1907 ·Page 4
Mary Moncallo was an
infant when her mother remarried an older man who died and she the remarried
again. She was raised by step-fathers before moving to Rawlins.
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| Maria Moncallo |
They were married at St. Joseph's Catholic
Church 5 February 1924 in Rawlins, Wyoming. They were members of the Saint
Joseph Catholic Church parish and eventually had a large family of seven
children of which only six lived to maturity.
Their son Joseph Modesto Romero was born 2 December 1924 in Rawlins.
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| Modesto and Maria Wedding 5 Feb 1924 Steve Romero and wife Josie Trujillo by the couple |
While Joe Modesto and
Mary Romero lived in Rawlins they also homesteaded at a place called Middlewood
Hill south of Rawlins. Joe Modesto
Romero worked at odd jobs but primarily he herded sheep near Dickson, Wyoming and
working for the Union Pacific Railroad. When his brother Pat Romero was
murdered in Laramie in 1927, it was he gave information for the death
certificate. This was not the first tragedy to befall him as some 30 years
later his daughter was murdered.
Joe Modesto and Mary
had a daughter they named Patricia Romero, perhaps after his murdered brother.
She was born 26 November 1928, the day before Thanksgiving but only lived 22
days as she died of influenza on 17 December 1928. The baby had been sick 4 days
and when not getting better a doctor came to treat her but she died on the 4th
day. The little girl was buried in the Rawlins Cemetery and it is not known
whether she was ever christened before she died. The death certificate stated
that she had lived at 112 East Center Street.
Her father was the informant on the death certificate.
Joe Modesto made good enough living that according to the 1930
census he had owned a house valued at $1500 at 112 East Center Street in the
south side of Rawlins between Washington and Jefferson Streets. The census
stated that he owned a radio. His occupation was given as a “cellar packer” for
the railroad. However by the time the 1930 census was taken, the Great
Depression of 1929 began to take effect
Another daughter named
Rose “Rosie” Margaret Romero born 27 February 1931 at Rawlins, Wyoming. There was a seven year age gap between her
and her brother Joseph “Joe” Modesto Romero. In 1931 Joe Modesto was also initiated into the Knights of Columbus, a
fraternal organization for Catholics. “The
order is dedicated to the principles of charity, unity, fraternity, and
patriotism. Membership is restricted to men, at least 18 years of age, who are
practicing Catholics in union with the Holy See and are in good standing with
the Church.” The Knights of Columbus also provided some financial insurance as
well to poor families. Because of religious and ethnic discrimination,
Catholics were regularly excluded from labor unions, popular fraternal
organizations, and other organized groups that provided such social services.
Another son was born 14
March 1935 they named William “Bill”
Michael Romero who was four years younger than his sister and 11 years younger
than his brother. Children followed on a
regular basis after Bill Romero. Two more sons were born who were all closer in
age that the older children. Charles Anthony Romero was born 9 May 1937, and
Patrick Leroy Romero was born 4 April 1939. All these children were born in
Rawlins.
Joe Modesto managed to
support his family during the depression years helped by President Franklin D
Roosevelt’s New Deal economic recovery programs. The 1940 census showed that he
was still living in Rawlins but had moved to a new address by 1935. In 1940 he
was at 449 between the Rawlins Cemetery and Rodeo Park. The census is unclear
whether the address was on McMicken Street or Daley Street but his home would
have been near Illinois street. The home was valued at $2000.
He was employed as a
section worker for “a steam railroad”. However he only made $640 for all of
1935 and had been out of work for 16 weeks and had five children to support.
His oldest was 15 and youngest 1 year old. Eventually Joe Modesto Romero moved
from Rawlins when the Union Pacific railroad changed from being coal operated
and didn't need all the stops for refueling that had kept Rawlins a bustling
Railroad town and refueling station.
A still born baby was
still born in 1941 and not named. It is not known where the baby was male or
female or born in Rawlins or Colorado. In 1941, Joe Modesto moved his family to
Clifton Colorado where he worked on fruit farms and also grew peaches, cherries,
and apricots. Clifton is some 260 miles
south of Rawlins near Grand Junction, Colorado.
It is not known why he moved to this location after living 20 years in
Rawlins as it does not appear that he had any relatives there.
When World War II broke
out in December 1941, Joe Modesto’s family were living in Clifton where on 16
February 1942 he was required to register for the draft. He gave his name as “Modesto Romero residing at Route 1 Clifton,
Colorado. He had no telephone. He gave his age as 41 and birth date 6 May 1900
and born in Mora, New Mexico. He gave his father Ricardo Romero of Rawlins as
someone who would always know where he lived.
He also stated that he was “unemployed.”
A description of the
Registrant was give as Mexican instead of white which was written in as the
printed categories were White, Negro, or Oriental, Indian, or Filipino. He was
5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 145 pounds. He had brown eyes, black hair, and
complexion “dark brown”. He had a tattoo
on his right forearm R.M.” He was registered in Grand Junction Mesa
County.
On 22 May 1942 a Questionnaire was sent to Modesto Romero 10797 which was
his draft order number
At the end of the year
on December 30, Joe Modesto’s son Joseph Modesto was registered for the
draft. Evidently between February and
December Joe Modesto had his orchard
farm as that his son stated on the draft registration that he worked for his
father. He had just turned 18 years old on December 2nd and gave his
father as someone who would always know where he was. Joseph Modesto on June 18
1943 was part of the June Contingent for Drat
Leaves Tuesday for Denver Examination and Induction to meet at the court house to leave on the night train Mesa County June on the Mountaineer train for selective derive
examination for service in the army, navy, marines and coast guard June 24
mentioned as having joined the navy. In 1944 wile still in the Navy Joseph
Modesto married Betty Crook in Clifton, Colorado
While Joe Modesto and
Mary Romero were living at Clifton,
Colorado their youngest child Alice Louise Romero was born in 16 December 1943,
the only child of theirs not born in Rawlins.
About a week before
President Roosevelt died in April 1945 Joe Modesto placed an want ad for
someone to spray his orchard. The war in Europe would end in May 1945 and the
war in the Pacific in September 1945.
Joe Modesto gave up his
orchard farm by 1946 he was working in a machinist shop for the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad in Grand Junction however the following year he moved his
family to Ogden, Utah to work for the railroad but was laid off. In Utah his younger
children, Bill, Charlie, and Pat attended St. Joseph’s Catholic School at
Twenty-eight and Lincoln while living in Ogden. His family were renting a house
at 2670 Childs Avenue while he found work as a laborer in the Western Junke
& Salvage Company
In about 1948, the family returned to Rawlins where their youngest child Alice Romero started kindergarten and the older children attended high school. Joe Modesto Romero was living in Rawlins when his mother and father died in 1948 and 1949.
By 1950 Joe Modesto was back to working
as a section had for the rail road. He stated that he was working 40 hours a
week. He and Mary were residing at 607 East Front Street north of the railroad
tracks. His son Bill was 15 years old and Alice was 6 and said born in Wyoming
when she actually as born in Colorado. His older children Joseph Modesto and
Rosie were married and living away from home.
Joseph Modesto was still in California and Rosie Romero had married Jose
Sebastian Maes 29 April 1949 in Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming. She would divorce him in February 1951 after having a daughter Carolyn
Jean Maes, Romero’s first grandchild. She was born 10 July 1951 in Rawlins. By the end of 1951 Rosie had married Ted
Duran after his divorce in November 1951 was final and moved with his down to
Las Vegas, New Mexico.
In August 1953 Joe Modesto’s teenage son Charles
Romero was arrested on serious charges which were dismissed or he was found not
guilty but in either case Joe Modesto decided to leave the state to move 860
miles from Rawlins to Mena, Polk County, Arkansas. A newspaper report from December 1953 stated
that Rawlin’s employment office stated that there were 93 new applications for
employment far above the 14 in December
in 1952. In contrast openings were down nearly 50 percent.
His daughter Alice Romero was in 4th
grade in 1954. Charles Romero as soon as he turned 18 enlisted on 14 June 1954
into the air force as a Field Mechanic and left Wyoming for good.
It seems that his oldest son Joseph was
living in Mena, Arkansas. His wife Betty Cook, whom he married in Clifton, was
from Mena. Joseph Romero has not been located in the 1950 census so it is not
certain whether he was and Betty were still married. It is a possibility as Joe
Modesto would have had no other reason to leave Rawlins for Mena. Joseph
Modesto reenlisted 27 January 1954 for five years until 1959 when he was 35
years old.
Bill Romero as soon as he was out of
high school chose to stay in Rawlins rather than move to Arkansas. When Joe
Modesto Romero decided to move to Arkansas his 19 year old son stayed behind in Rawlins where
he married his high school sweetheart Faye Trejo 14 August 1954. They were
married in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church with his uncle Steve Romero and aunt
Josie being the witnesses.
Only 15 year old Patrick and 10 year old
Alice Romero went to Arkansas with their parents. Polk County is surrounded by
the wooded Ouachita Mountains boarding on Oklahoma. In Arkansas Joe Modesto
worked a 100 acre ranch in the Board Camp Fork community, 18 miles from Mena
the county seat of Polk County. Joe Modesto operated a sheep and cattle ranch
there and Pat and Alice attended high school at Mena. The town had a bit of a boom in the 1950s, as
a government program to stockpile manganese led to the reopening of local
mines. The program, however, ended in 1959, and the mines again closed.
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| Mary Moncallo Romero, Alice Romero, Hiroko Romero, Faye Romero, Mike Romero, Jeanie Romero, Modesto Romero, Joe Romero unknown girl, Pat Romero 1956 |
Charles Romero was in the service from 1954 to 1958 when he was discharged and went to Mena, Arkansas. He married 3 October 1958 a local girl named Doris Moore.
Mena was about 700
miles from Las Vegas, New Mexico. Mena the county seat of Polk County, Arkansas
is about 860 miles from Rawlins. Mena had a bit of a boom In the 1950s, as a
government program to stockpile manganese led to the reopening of local mines.
The program, however, ended in 1959, and the mines again closed. Rose’s brother Patrick operated a sheep and
cattle ranch Mena was about 700 miles from Las Vegas, New Mexico. The Ouachita
Forest where he raised sheep, cows, horses, goats. and angora black sheep. He
also grew alfalfa and hay but the farm proved to be an economic bust for the
family.
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| Alice Romero, Mary Moncallo Romero, Faye Romero, Mike Romero, Jeanie Romero, Hiroko |
Another
tragedy occurred when their daughter Rosie left her husband Ted Duran and her
children behind in Las Vegas. She took her daughter Jeanie with her to Arkansas
to stay with her parents. In January
1959, Ted Duran tracked her down to Mena and shot and killed her in front of
her mother Mary Romero, Alice Romero and
Rosie’s children. The Duran family came to Arkansas and brought the Duran
children back to Las Vegas, New Mexico to live with their grandfather there,
leaving Jeanie with Joe Modesto and Mary to raise. Whether they ever legally
adopted her, Jeannie was always considered a daughter and sister to Rosie’s
siblings.
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| Bill, Alice, and Jeannie |
Pat Romero married
about 1960 a woman named Retha Reynolds whose father Richard Henry Lee Reynolds
was a contractor. Pat Romero was able to get his father a job working with him
with Reynolds Construction, which bided out work for the State Highway Department
building forest service roads. Joe
Modesto Romero worked for the Reynolds Company until he semi-retired in about
1961. In that year he returned to
Rawlins, Wyoming at his wife’s insistence.
During the 1960's Joe
Modesto Romero and his wife Mary Moncallo continue living a part partly due to
her severe health problems which included diabetes and a leaking heart
valve. She needed to be near doctors and
family. When she was a young girl she had rheumatic fever which had damaged her
heart. During this separation Mary
Romero lived with various married children but primarily with her youngest
daughter Alice Romero. Alice Romero left
Wyoming right after high school in 1961 and moved to the Seattle where she went
college to get a teacher’s certificate in biology.
Joe Modesto Romero did
not stay long in Wyoming long however as he and his wife began to live apart
with Joe Modesto Romero going to Colorado and back and forth to Arkansas while
Mary Romero stayed in Rawlins while her
daughter finished school and where her son Bill Romero was raising a family of
three children.
Joe Modesto Romero went to Greeley
Colorado where he found steady work from 1963-1964 working in a feed lot and
helping run a ranch by tending the livestock.
Whenever Joe Modesto Romero was in Arkansas he would work for his son,
Pat Romero who had also started his own construction company working
subcontracting on forest service roads during the summer.
Joe Modesto son’s Charles Romero died in a
plane crash outside of Mena in 1968. They now had lost Patricia Romero in 1928,
a still born baby boy in 1941, Rosie Duran in 1959, and Charles Romero in 1968.
Back in Colorado Joe
Modesto worked near Meeker, the county seat of Rio Blanco County, on a ranch
helping herd sheep to their wintering area. Joe Modesto would throw out bales
of alfalfa on which the sheep would live on during the winter. He lived in the Meeker, Colorado area from
1968 until 1971 where he was living when his wife.
Alice
Romero described her mother in her later years as a 'Medical Mess". Mary Romero during her last years, stayed
some in Seattle, then at the Denver General Hospital, next back to Rawlins,
Wyoming, then to Meeker Colorado to be with joe Modesto before finally coming
back to Rawlins where she died.
She
was living at 216 West Center Street before being taken to the Carbon County
Hospital where she died.
Her
obituary was in the Daily Times Rawlins Wyoming on Friday 16 July 1971. MARIA Romero,66 DIES
WEDNESDAY Maria Romero, 66, was dead on arrival at Carbon County Memorial
Hospital early Wednesday morning. Rosary will be recited today at 7pm at the
Rasmusson-Shriner Mortuary. Funeral Mass will be celebrated Saturday at 9 am at
St. Joseph's Catholic Church with Father Angel Ornelas as celebrant. Burial
will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Mrs. Romero was born June 26, 1905 at Las
Vegas, New Mexico. She married Jose Romero in 1924 at Rawlins and was a member
of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. She is
survived by her husband Jose M. Romero of Rawlins, two daughters Miss Alice
Louise Romero of Seattle Washington, and Carolyn Jean Valdez of Millicent,
Colorado, and three sons, Joseph M. Romero of Bethel, California, William
Romero of Rawlins, and Pat Romero of Mena, Arkansas. Ten grandchildren and two half-sisters also
survive.”
Actually she had 17 children at the time
of her death. Joseph Modesto had 1 child, Rosie had 6, Bill had 3, Charles had
2 and Pat had 5 children. If Lorraine Romero and the five Duran children were
not counted and Jeanie was counted as a daughter and not a granddaughter then
that would have been the 10 grandchildren, Michael Romero, John Romero,
Michelle Romero, Charles Romero, Mark Romero, Becky Romero, Bernice Romero,
Ellen Marie Romero, Randall Romero, and Melinda Romero.
Her half-sisters who were not named were
Estella "Stella" Martinez who married Trivino Jose Sandoval of Salt
Lake City and Mary Paz Martinez who
married Carl Engle of Chicago. She was 16 and 17 years older than either of her
half-sisters.
Joe Modesto was the informant for her
death certificate and he listed his name simply as “Jose Romero”. He gave her
date of birth 26 June 1905 and her mother’s name as Paz de Herrera and not
known for the name of her father. She had been under the care of a Rawlins
Physician since Feb 1969 who last examined her May 26 a month before she died.
The immediate cause of death was myocardial infarction or heart attack with
only 5 minutes interval between onset and death. She died at 5:50 in the
morning.
She was buried near the top of the
Rawlins Cemetery in the St. Joseph's Catholic Section with a marker which
simply reads MARY Romero 1905-1971.
Joe Modesto and Mary Romero had been married for
47 years although the last ten year of their marriage they were mainly living a
part. Joe Modesto Romero remained a was a widower for another 20 years after his wife passed,
primarily residing in Arkansas near Mena
in Polk County and at Mount Ida in Montgomery County. The family was now primarily living in
Arkansas, Wyoming, California, Washington and with the Duran grandchildren in
New Mexico.
Joe Modesto was living Mt. Ida, Arkansas
when died at the ripe old age of 91 years on 6 December 1992. He was cremated
and his remains were brought back to the hills of Wyoming where he spent much
of his youth and were scattered by members of his Bill Romero's family.
Therefore he doesn’t have a grave next to Mary Romero. Joe Modesto Romero was described by his daughter Alice Romero as a very
animated man who like to keep busy.
Known Descendants of Jose
Modesto Romero and Maria Moncallo
Joseph Modesto Romero was born 2 December 1924 in Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming.
He gave his parents one grandchild Lorraine Romero.
“Joseph Modesto” at the
age of 20 registered for the draft in December 1942 and he said he was employed
by his father in Clifton, Colorado. He enlisted 2 Apr 1943 in Los Angeles,
California as “Single, with dependents” while a resident of Orange County (Single)
where he worked as a Farm hands, in fruit orchard. The dependents were probably his parents than
any wife or children.
He enlisted in the Navy
air force and was honorably discharged 19 December 1945. He married Betty Cook
in 1945 at Grand Junction Colorado while still in the navy. Although the
marriage did not last nor did they have kids.
He would later reenlist
27 January 1954 and served until 27 April 1959. He married a 20 year old
Japanese woman named Hiroko K Wei in
Tokyo circa 1956 when he was about 32 years old
and brought his bride back to the states arriving 8 Nov 1956. They had a
daughter Lorraine D Romero born 18 August 1958 in California. He would later
divorce Hiroko.
About 1985 Joe Romero
moved to Manteca in San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of California,
located 76 miles east of San Francisco, and 18 miles northwest of Modesto. He
lived out the remainder of his life there at Manteca. He married for the third
time a native of Mexico, Mrs. Graciela Campos Andujo on 25 June 1992 in Carson
City, Nevada.
Joseph M Romero died at
the age of 76 in Manteca California on 6 December 2000. His obituary didn’t
mention his daughter Lorraine only his step children which was written probably
by his third wife.
“Joseph M. Romero 76,
of Manteca died Sunday at St. Dominic’s Hospital. Mr. Romero was a native of
Rawlins, Wyo. He live in Manteca 15 years. He was a mechanic for the Air
National Guard. He served in World II, the Korean War and three tours in the
Vietnam War. He is survived by his wife Graciela Romero of Manteca, children,
Slyvia Danker of Fallon, Nevada, Jim Andujo of Kansas City, and Mario Andujo
and Ruben Andujo, both of Manteca; brothers Bill Romero of Rawlins Wyo. and
Patrick Romero of Mount Ida, Ark.; sisters Alice Romero of Seattle and Caroly
Nuss of Haslet, Texas and seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
A graveside service
will be a at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. John’s Catholic Cemetery, Escalon, P.L.
Fray and Son Chapel in charge of arrangements. Remembrances may be made to the
Disabled Veterans Association, 42 N Sutter, Third Floor Stockton.
Rose
“Rosie” Margaret Romero was born 27 February 1931 in Rawlins, Carbon,
Wyoming. She married Joe Maes and later divorced him to marry Ted Duran. Rose
gave her parents six grandchildren. She had one issue from Joe Maes, a daughter
Carolyn Jean Maes born After Rosie married Ted Duran, she had children, Tony
Duran, Christina Duran, Benjamin Duran, Kathy Duran and Tom Duran who after her
murder, were rarely acknowledged.
Rosie
Romero was enumerated with her parents in Rawlins in the 1940 census. After
both her parents had passed away, she married at the age of 18, Jose “Joe”
Sebastian Maes Jr., on 29 April 1949 in Rawlins. He was the nephew of her aunt
Josie Trujillo Romero. Rosie and Joe
themselves were not cousins as that that Josie Trujillo Romero and her sister
Juanita Trujillo Maes were not blood relatives of the Romeros, although Rosie’s
cousins by her uncle Steve Romero were first cousins with Joe Maes. Rose and Joe were married by the Justice of the Peace in
Rawlins with his first cousin, Arthur Romero and his wife Connie, acting as
witnesses.
Joe Maes was born 23
January 1929 in Cleveland [San Antonio], Mora, New Mexico the son of Sebastian
Maes and Juanita Trujillo and was raised in the Presbyterian Church of el Rito,
not the Catholic Church. In early 1944 he had worked in the roundhouse in Rawlings
where he had relatives but back in New Mexico, he lied about his age and joined
the army on 24 April 1944 at the age of 15.
and was discharged 14 June 1947.
After Rosie and Joe
Maes married they moved back to New Mexico where they are located in the 1950
Census. Neither one was listed as employed, which may have been a reason they
separated. Rosie returned to Rawlins where
she filed for a divorce on the 28 December 1950. The divorce was granted 19
February 1951. However she was five
months pregnant and her daughter Carolyn
Jean "Jeannie" Maes was born 10 July 1951.
Joe Maes may not have
even known he had a daughter as he moved to Utah in 1951 and found employment
as a mechanic at Hill Airforce Base. He remarried, moved to Kearns in Salt Lake
County, where he had a son Thomas Michael Maes born 15 June 1956. Jeannie may
never have known she had a half-brother.
Joe Maes worked at Hill Air Force Base for 34 years retiring in 1985. He
died 8 February 2020 in West Valley City, Utah.
Rosie
started dating Telesforo “Ted” I Duran while she was separated from Jose Maes.
Ted Duran was a native of Chacon in Mora County, New Mexico. He had enlisted in the service 16 March 1946
and was discharged 12 February 1947. While in the service he married a woman
named “Mickie” Mestas in October 1946 at
Las Vegas, New Mexico. They were married as members of the Presbyterian Church
at El Rito. The community of Chacón was originally El Rito de Agua Negra or
Agua Negro
Arriba, but was changed when the post
office was first established there in 1892 and
named after the first postmaster, Diego
Chacón. J She was 30 years old and he was only 19 years old. They had separated
by 1950 when he 23 years old and was residing in Cheyenne, Wyoming working in a
bakery as a baker. He was living alone
but stated he was married still. His
wife Mickie Mestas, who was living at Laramie, filed for divorce in 24 August
1951 which was granted in 19 November
1951.
Rosie and Ted Duran
were married a few months later after the divorce was finalized although their
marriage record has not been located. Ted became the stepfather of 6 month old
Jeannie Maes. Rosie’s first child with
Ted was Tony Duran who was born in October 1952 at Rawlins. Rosie had four more
children between 1954 and 1958, Christina Duran was born 1954 in Rawlins and
married Jose Izaguirre. Benjamin Duran
was born in 1956 in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Kathy Duran was born 1957 and
married Peter W. Diaz and Thomas "Tom" Duran 1958.
Ted and his brother Noe
had recently established The Tasty-Maid Bakery and “was reportedly doing very
well.” Duran was considered a respected member of the community. However
evidently the marriage was not a happy one and her husband accused her of seeing
other men when she would separate. A Las Vegas Attorney named Tony Martinez said that Ted Duran and
his wife Rose had recently discussed marital troubles with him. He said that
the trouble apparently seemed “minor” to him. Ted Duran and Rose had talked of
the troubles to the lawyer but neither had ever mentioned domestic violence in
what he called petty trouble.
After a quarrel just before Christmas
Eve 1958, Rosie left Las Vegas with her daughter Jeanie leaving her five other
children with Ted Duran who operated a bakery called Tasty-Maid with his
brother Noe Duran. She went to stay with
her parents Modesto and Mary Romero who
had moved to the rural community of Big Fork near Mena the county seat of Polk
County, Arkansas where her father operated a sheep and cattle ranch. Mena was about 700 miles from Las Vegas, New
Mexico.
Ted
Duran crazy with jealousy and angry that Rosie left him with their five
children the youngest barely more than a year old. On Saturday January 3rd, he
bought an antique .22 caliber derringer pistol in Las Vegas and loaded up his
car with his children “ranging in age from one to six” and drove through a
snowstorm “blanketing most of the
Southwest Sunday and Monday.” He only
stopped in Tulsa, Oklahoma on
Monday to ask the police for their
assistance in finding his wife. He arrived in Arkansas early at 7 Tuesday morning .
At 7 a.m. Rosie was driving her 16 year
old sister Alice Romero and 8 year old Jeanie Maes in a pickup truck to a bus
stop to catch the school bus. Her mother Mary Romero was also along in the
truck. The Romeros lived about 12 miles east of Mena. On a highway, 10
miles east of Mena, as he was driving up the road to the home of his in laws,
he saw met Rosie and her mother Mary in a pickup truck coming down the lane,
with two children they were taking to the school bus stop.
He blocked the road with his car and
Rosie apparently recognized her husband and jumped out of the truck and Duran
confronted her to force her into his car.
Rose tried to flee and Duran fired three shots, which hit her in the chest. The fatal shots were witnessed by her
horrified mother and sister as the children were screaming in fear as a passing
motorist drove by.
Bill Vaugh of Mena , a passing motorist,
said he saw a man fire a pistol at a woman and she fell on the highway. He then
said the man loaded the woman’s body into his car and put the five children in
the vehicle drove towards Mena. Vaughn said he went to a service station and
immediately called the police.
Duran had picked up Rosie and carried
her to the car and as he was carrying her to car she said take me to a doctor
I’m dying. The police stopped the car
from Vaugh’s description on main street in Mena and took Ted him into custody. The office said the
children were screaming ad crawling all around the car. The police took Rosie
to the hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Duran told police he
was jealous of his wife, and that she had been “stepping out” on him earlier.
The Duran children were placed in
protected custody and their relatives of
Mora and San Miguel counties were contacted by the Mena sheriff after the
murder and arrest. Noe Duran left immediately to pick up the couple’s five
young children, aged one to six. The sheriff said that the youngsters were
“cleaned up’ and are being cared for by the juvenile probation officer there.
“Two were ill, but not seriously and will be allowed to return to New Mexico.”
Asked if it would be necessary for the children to return to Arkansas in the
event of a court trial , the sheriff said “no we wouldn’t make then go through
that. He said there were four witnesses to the shooting other than the children
and that their testimony would not be necessary. The witnesses were Bill Vaughn,
Mary Romero, Alice Romero, and probably Jeanie Maes.
The Duran children who witnessed their
mother’s murder were taken to live with their grandparents Ricardo Duran and
Livina Cruz in Las Vegas, New Mexico while Jeanie Maes stayed with her Romero
grandparents.
Rosie Romero Duran was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery at Mena,
Arkansas. Her father “Modesto Romero” of
Board Camp was the informant on his daughter’s death certificate as had been
for his brother Patrick some 30 years before.
The cause of death was stated as “gunshot wound of the chest” and “shot
by husband .22 caliber rifle” and death occurred at 8 a.m.
Ted Duran was sent to the Arkansas state
mental hospital in Litte Rock, for a 30-day observation by psychiatrists where
he was deemed sane. The County District
Attorney at first stated that he was going to ask for the death penalty but
later changed his mind as that the “long struggle between Duran and his wife
probably was an extenuating circumstance
in the case sufficient to put aside the death penalty.” Ted Duran on 13 March
1959 was sentenced by a jury to life imprisonment after he pled guilty. However
in 1966 Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas reduced Duran’s life sentence to 21 years
and was actually paroled in April 1866 by the parole board.
Ted Duran returned to New Mexico where he died in 1990 at the age of 63. He was buried in the El Rito Presbyterian Church Cemetery Chacon, Mora County, New Mexico. His tombstone reads Telesforo I Duran 5 Apr 1927 -19 Apr 1990 “Pvt US Army World War II”. His first wife Mickie Maestas died in 1995 and is also buried in the El Rito Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Chacon. The community of Chacón was originally El Rito de Agua Negra or Agua Negro Arriba, but was changed when the post office was first established there in 1892 and named after the first postmaster, Diego Chacón.
Rosie’s Duran children were estranged
from their Romero grandparents and were raised in New Mexico. When Mary Romero
died in 1971 they were not included in a list of her grandchildren. Alice
Romero, however, kept up with at least some of her nephews and nieces.
Carolyn Jean Maes was born 10 July 1951 Rawlins after the
death of her mother in 1959 she was raised as a daughter of Joe Modesto Romero.
Whether they ever adopted her legally she was always referred to as a daughter.
She was raised in Arkansas until returning to live in Rawlins and Seattle Jennie
When Mary Moncallo Romero died in 1971,
Carolyn Jean was already married to a Tony Valdez and living in Milliken
Colorado. She divorced her first husband then married a Mr. Harries three while
she lived in Denver, Colorado. Went to California San Jose Her third husband was Michael Anthony Nuss
who she married prior to Joseph Modesto’s death in 2000. Records showed that she lived in Greenville
South Carolina in the 1990s before moving to Haslet, Texas where her husband is
an owner at Nuss Software Dev Company. Categorized under Computer Software
Development and Applications. Our records show it was established in 1993 and
incorporated in Texas. Current estimates show this company has an annual
revenue of 170, 000 and employs a staff of approximately 3. Michael Nuss’
ethnicity is Middle Eastern American and religious views are listed as Jewish.
Anthony "Tony" Louis Duran born 14 October 1952 in Rawlins, died 30 June 2013 in
Harrah, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma After
being raised in Chacon, New Mexico he joined the Navy as served as a Medic
attached to the Marine Corps during the
Vietnam War, after his service he
continued his education at the University of Central Oklahoma and complete a
bachelor’s degree in nursing . he was a commissioned Office in the United
States Public Health Service and traveled the country providing care to American Indian People with the Indian
Health Services and later with Immigration
and Naturalization Services, He also was commissioned with the Commander
Flight Nurse transporting Federal prisoners.
He was survived by wife Loretta
and four children Kara, Jennifer, Christopher and Anthony.
Christine Duran married Jose Izaguirre and moved to Greeley Colorado
Benjamin Duran married a woman named
Blanca
Kathy Duran was born 7 December 1957 in
Las Vegas and died 26 May 2023 at Chama,
Rio Arriba County New Mexico She married Pedro “Peter” Diaz November 1980 in Las Vegas New Mexico
“Kathy Diaz, beloved sister, wife,
mother, and friend, passed away on May 26, 2023, at the age of 65. She was born
on December 7, 1957, to Telesfor Duran and Rose Romero and will be deeply
missed by all who knew her. Throughout her life, Kathy touched the hearts of
many with her kind and compassionate nature. She had a natural ability to bring
joy to those around her, and her infectious laughter could light up any room.
Kathy had a genuine love for life and was known for her warm smile and caring
spirit. In her professional life, Kathy did many different things. She was an
expert cook and baker, providing comfort and support to countless throughout
her career. Her commitment to helping others and making a positive impact on
their lives was truly admirable. Kathy had a passion for gardening and spent
many hours tending to her beautiful flower beds. She had a green thumb and took
great pride in creating vibrant and colorful landscapes. Kathy also enjoyed
cooking and entertaining her loved ones, creating lasting memories through
shared meals and laughter. Kathy leaves behind a legacy of love and kindness.
She is preceded in death by her grandparents Livinia Cruz and Ricardo Duran,
parents Telesfor Duran and Rose Romero, stepmother Angelina Duran, brother Tony
Duran, and son Guillermo Diaz. She is survived by her loving husband Pedro
Diaz, children Francine Diaz and Lorina Diaz-Gallegos (Gregory Gallegos),
grandchildren Izaiah Martinez, Nathaniel Martinez and Peyton Gallegos, siblings
Thomas Duran (Pamela Felte), Christine Izaguirre (Jose Izaguirre), Ben Duran
(Blanca Duran), extended family members, and a wide circle of friends who will
forever cherish her memory.
Tom Duran married Pamela Felte
William Michael Romero gave his parents three grandchildren Michael Romero, John Romero, and Michelle Romero. He was born 1935 in Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming and married Faye Michelle Trejo, Their children are 1. Michael Ray Romero born 1956 2. John Romero born 1958 3. Michelle Faye Romero born 1960
Charles Anthony Romero gave his parents two grandchildren Charles Romero and Mark Romero. He was born 1937 Rawlins, Carbon, New Mexico married Doris who is now remarried. Charles Romero lives at 503 Oakwood Dr., Lowell, Arkansas 72745 phone #501-631-1426. He married a woman named Lawana and is expecting their first child (1994) Mark Romero is married with children. He lives in Washington state and works for American Airlines. Charles Anthony Romero was born 9 May 1937 in Rawlins and was baptized in the rites of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Joseph Church by Rev. Paul B. Helburn on 26 Jun 1937. His sponsors were his grandparents Ricardo and Libradita Romero. He spent much of his childhood in Colorado and Utah until his father returned to Rawlins where he attended high school.
When
he was 17 years old he and two friends 20 year old Joe Pacheco and 19 year old
Jesus Juarez were arrested on a charge
of rape. Jesus Juarez was the son of Cordelia Trujillo Juarez, the sister of
Juanita Trujillo Maes and Josie Trujillo Romero, Charles Romero’s aunt.
His widow remarried 4 Jul 1979 in Rogers, Benton, Arkansas, USA but divorced 28 February 1991. Her obituaru used her Romero married name. Doris Roseine Romero, age 81, passed away on Saturday, December 10, 2016 in Rogers, Arkansas. She was born November 24, 1935 in Colcord, Oklahoma to Marshall and Laura Lee (Norfleet) Moore. Doris loved life and going to church. She was affiliated with the Pentecostals of NWA in Rogers for 45 years. She was known as one of the sweetest people you could ever meet and was loved by many. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles A. Romero; parents; and brothers, Albert, Orval and Howard Moore. Doris is survived by her sons, Charles Romero (and wife, Lawana) of Lowell, and Mark Romero (and wife, Minnie) of Owasso, Oklahoma; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and sister, Joyce McGee of Rogers.
Patrick Leroy Romero gave his parents five grandchildren Becky
Romero, Bernice Romero, Ellen Marie Romero, Randall Romero, and Tammy Romero
born 1939 Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming married Retha Reynolds in Arkansas 1. Becky
Romero married a man named Hubbard and lives at 508 North Dixieland #13 Rogers, Arkansas 72756 2. Bernice Romero 3. Mary Ellen Romero 4.
Randy Romero 5. Tammy Pat lives at P.O. Box 148, Mt. Ida, Arkansas 71957 phone
# (501) 845-2568 Farm number 326-5584Patrick Romero
Son of Modesto and Mary Romero. He was united in marriage for 56 years to Retha Reynolds Romero and was of the Catholic faith. He was the lifetime owner of Romero Construction and P & R Farms. His enjoyment was his family, farm, and raising cattle. He was a loving and kind husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend to all who knew him. He will be dearly missed. He is survived by his wife of Pencil Bluff, Arkansas; one daughter of Pencil Bluff; one daughter of Royal, Arkansas; two sisters; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other family members. He was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Rebecca Romero. Pat was born 4 April 1939 in Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming, and died 15 March 2015 at the age of 75 in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, He is buried at Hillside Cemetery Sulphur Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas.
still born baby Romero who was born and died in 1941
Alice Louise Romero born 16 December 1943 Clifton, Mesa, Colorado partner
Judith Prince Lives in Seattle, Washington where she works as a high school
biology teacher.
Moncayo or Moncallo
Family of Las Vegas, New Mexico
When
Joe Modesto Romero was 22 years old he courted and married another transplanted
New Mexican named Maria "Mary" Moncallo. They were married at St. Joseph's Catholic
Church 5 February 1924 in Rawlins, Wyoming.
Mary Moncallo was born 26 June 2, 1905
at Las Vegas, New Mexico, the daughter of Gumario Moncallo and Paz de
Herrera. The ancestry of Mary Moncallo
has been difficult to trace as that there was no extended family to drawn
from. Family knowledge remembered that
Mary's father was a man named Gumario Moncallo.
A
search of the 1900 U.S. Census reveals only one family in all of New México
with the surname Moncallo. This family
was living in the northern part of Guadalupe County, Nuevo México. about 20 miles from Las Vegas and in the
household is listed Gumario
1900 U.S. Census of Guadalupe County, Nuevo México. Precinct 7 Los Colonias Household #76 Florencio MONCALLO born May 1869 born in NM as were his parents. married 13years (1887)
He was a farm laborer renting a farm. He could
read and write
WiFé-Mrs. Refugio MONCALLO born July
1868 born in NM as were her parents.
and mother of 8 children 4 still alive.
Adolfo MONCALLO born Fébruary 1889 NM -
son
Andres C. MONCALLO born Fébruary 1892 NM
-son
Abram MONCALLO born June 1897 NM-son
Obrelino MONCALLO born April 1899 NM-son
Gumario MONCALLO born October 1881 -ward
born in Nuevo México. Day laborer can read and write.
In this census Gumario Moncallo is
listed as the ward of Florencio Moncallo showing that they are not father
and son.
Florencio Moncallo is only 12 years older then Gumario which would
indicate that they were probably brothers.
This fact is bared out in the 1885 State Census of Nuevo México. and the 1880 U.S. Census.
Abraham Moncallo
In Spanish the double L sound is also
pronounced as a y making names like Montoya and Montolla, Moncayo and Moncallo
interchangeable. The surname Moncallo is
probably pronounced as the 1880 U.S. Census taker spelled it as MONKAIO
(Mon-ki-yo). Since Abran Moncallo was
unable to read or write and due to the unusual nature of the surname différent
scribes spelled the name Monkaio-Moncayo-Moncallo.
Jose Jesus Abraham Moncayo was
christened 16 March 1837 in the church of
San Miguel De Cerro Gordo Parish, Villa Hidalgo, Durango, Mexico. As a
young man he came to New Mexico and married in the Santa Getrudis Church, Mora
County, New Mexico, Maria Ursula Sandoval on 25 November 1861 at the age of 24
and she was 16 years the daughter of
Jose Andres Sandoval 1819–1845 son of
Jose Manuel Sandoval 1788–1835 and Maria Josefa Lopez
1793–1837. Her mother was Maria Altagracia Sandoval born 22 April 1827 in La Joya the daughter of Francisco Romualdo Sandoval
Martinez and Maria Rita Maese
Maria Ursala Sandoval home in the 1860
census was Santa Gertrudes, Mora, New Mexico Territory
Post Office Fernando De Taos Dwelling Number 3297 she living in the household of her step father Jose Pablo
Marcarenas 63 and mother MA Altag
Sandoval 36 Her step father was a wealthy farmer worth
$3,100 worth of real estate and personal estate.
MA Ursala Sandoval was 15 born in Rio
Arriba County. Her Sandoval siblings were 20 year old Jose Beniti, 18 year of
Santiago, and 15 Jose encarncion. She had 3 Masecasnenas half siblings age 12
to 5. MA Paula Marcarenas 12
MA Ines Marcarenas 7 Entefand
Marcarenas 5
Jose Enc Sandoval
Jose Benito Sandoval 20
Santiago Sandoval 28
1866 their son Jose Leandro Moncayo was
born 19 Feb 1866 • Plaza de El Alto de Chupadaores, Mora, NM Another son Jose
Florencio Moncallo (1869–1937) was born 31 May 1869 • New Mexico
The 1870 census of Mora County, New
Mexico listed Abron as of July 26th living in Precint 1 P.O. La Junta Listed as afe 28 and a framer
worth $250 His wife was Ursila Hursulita
Sandoval age 20 and they had a 3 jear
old son Juan Luis and 9/12 monthold Jose Florencio. Next was Eucarnada Sandoval
26
a daughter Isabel Serevita Moncayo
(1872–) was born 13 Nov 1872 • Alto, Mora County, New Mexico, a son Ambrosio
Moncallo (1875–1949) 15 Nov 1875 • Mora, New Mexico
In 1875
Abraham Moncayo was listed on the Registration of Voters in Precinct 1
of Mora County, New Mexico.
The 1880 U.S. Census of Mora County,
Nuevo México. states that the family of
Abran Moncallo was living on land near the creek of Balsafita del Rio Colorado.
U.S. Census of 1880 Mora County, New
Mexico
Precinct 14 Enumeration District 2 page
24 Sheet 3 line 5
3 June 1880 On Balsafita del Rio
Colorado
Abran Monkaio age 30 (1850) born in
Nuevo México. as were parents
Occupation-Stock Raising
Asalita Monkaio age 25 (1855) wifeborn
in Nuevo México. as were parents
occupation-keeping house
Liendro Monkaio age 12 (1868) son born in New Mexico
Florencio age 9 (1871) son born in New
Mexico
Y Sevelita age 7 (1873) daughter born in
New Mexico
Ambrosai age 5 (1875) son born in New
Mexico
Baby aged 1 month born May 1880 in New
Mexico
Felicitas Moncallo Archuleta
Birth of daughter Faustina Moncallo
(1880–) May 1880 • Mora County, New Mexico Birth of son Gumario
"Marzo" Moncallo (1881–1906) Oct 1881 • Balsafita del Rio Colorado,
Mora, NM Birth of son Jose Gil Moncayo (1885–)
4 Aug 1885 • Comancheros, Mora, New
Mexico
This
census clearly shows that Florencio Moncallo the guardian of Gumario Moncallo
is the son of Abran Moncallo. Gumario
would not have been listed in the census since according to the 1900 Census he
was not born until 1881.
1885 State Census of New Mexico
Precinct 18 Mora County
31 July 1885
Household 249
Abran Moncallo age 45 (1840) born in
Nuevo México. as were parents
can not read nor write
Mali Moncallo age 38 (1847)-wifeborn in
New Mexico
Liandro Moncallo age 26 (1859)-son born
in New Mexico
Florencio Moncallo age 16 (1869) -son
born in New Mexico
Isabel Moncallo age 12 (1873)-daughter
born in New Mexico
Ambrozio Moncallo age 9 (1876)-son born
in New Mexico
Fausta Moncallo age 6 (1879)-daughter
born in New Mexico
Marzo Moncallo age 4 (1881)-son born in
New Mexico
Between
these two censuses of only five years apart Abran Moncallo states that he was
born in either 1840 or 1850. Because he was illiterate it is quite possible
that he didn't know exactly how old he was. He was at least 21 years old in
1875 when he was on a voting list.
The name of his wife as well as her age
changes in these five years. From being born in 1855 to being born in 1847.
Mali is probably just a varient form of Maria and her name may have been Maria
Asiltia.
1880 Census Precint 19 Mora 3 June On Balsafeta del Rio Colorado
Abran Monkaio 30 Stock raising
Asulito Monkaio 25
Liendro Monkaio 12
Florencio Monkaio 9
Y Sevelito Monkaio 7
Ambrosai Monkaio 5
Monkaio 1/12
However it is difficult to explain how Liandro Moncallo when from being
12 in 1880 to 26 years old in 1885. He
should have been only about 17 or 18 years old in 1885. And if he was 21 years
old in 1880 any census taker could see the difFérence betwen a 12 year old and
a 21 year old. The 1885 date for
Florencio Moncallo matches his birth date given in 1900 and the rest of the
children's birth ages fairly matches what was given in 1880. The baby born in May 1880 was named Fausta
Moncallo and listed as 6 years old and a four year old son named Marzo Moncallo
matches the age of Gumario Moncallo exactly.
1885 Territorial Census Precinct 18, 31
July household 249 Abran Moncollo age 45
M. A F 38
Leonio
20 Florecio 18
Isabel 17, Ambrosio 9, Fedesta 6 GM 4
14 November 1886 Albuerque Jornal “A
Cowardly Murder- The LaFeecha , of Wagon Mound, gives the particulars of a
cowardly murder which took place on Thursday the 4th instant , on
Red River Mora County Francisco Sales Ortega , a young ma of about 20 years
shot and instantly killed Don Abrahma Moncayo, a ranchman of that place, the pstol ball entering th e
left temple, penetrating through the brain and out the right temple. We are not
able to give the true particulars of the tragedy ,as heresay evidence contradicts. The assassin
acompnaied by his father and several witnesses under charge of Deputy Sheriff
Luciano Gallegos, passed here Sunday in rourte to Mora where a trial will be
had. The deceased is said to have been a
peaceful, honest and well liked man. Not long since his wife died and the death
of Don Moncayo leaved three or foru young chide
in orphanhood without any relatuves to care for tejm so we are informed.
The deceased was in fair circmsyances being the owner of considerable land and
livestock.
The 1900 census listed Francisco S
Ortega born Jan 1866 The 1880 census
named him as Sales Ortega and 14 years old the son of Luciano Ortega living in
San Antonio. Interestingly this family lived 2 households from James Doherty
the brother of John Doherty who was murdered in 1893 and 3 from William Gandart
and Alta Gracia Vigil. In the
Albuquerque Journal dated 24 August 1912 an article mentioned that Frank S.
Ortega was killed
Trivia Quarrel ends in Fatal Shooting-
Abran Mares and Frank S Ortega Fight Over Roll of Bedding in Wagon Mound;
former Kills Latter.
During a quarrel concerning the
ownership of a roll of bedding worth about $1.25 Abran Mares this afternoon
shot and killed Frank S. Ortega. Both
are prominent local residents. The shooting occurred in the home of
Mares. Ortega and Mares are said to have neem angry at each other for about a
week, due to the efforts of Ortega to collect on an account alleged to be owned
him by the other man. At 1 o’clock this afternoon Ortega went to the home of
Mares and asked to given a roll of bedding which he claimed belonged to him. Mares
refused and ordered Ortega off the place. The he dodged into the house, Ortega
followed. Just as he was about to enter the inner room Mares seized a shotgun
and fired. The full chare entered Ortega’s breast tearing a hole three inches
in diameter and killing him instantly.
Mares gave himself up afte the shooting
The fatc that Ortega entered Mares house when he was not an officer equipped
with a search warrant may allow Mares to go free. Ortega was the owner of
several building son main street as well as several rances in the in the enighbrhood.
In November Abram Mores was convicted
and sentence for the killing of Ortega and served 9 yetaa in the
pententialy guity of third degree
murder Ortega was a kading citizen of Wagon Mound
29 Jan 1862
Death
23 Aug 1912 (aged 50)
Burial
Santa Clara Cemetery
Wagon Mound, Mora County, New Mexico,
USA
The name Gumario is pronounced
Goo-Mar-e-o. Certainly Marzo could have been a nickname for a young boy named
Gumario.
Children of Abraham Moncayo and Ursula
Sandoval
Jose Leandro MONCAYO born –
Birth 1868 • Plaza de El Alto de
Chupadaores, Mora, New Mexico married Maria Dionisia Rayos Cordova born Birth
19 MAR 1869 • Mora, New Mexico Territory, USA daughter of Jose Maria CORDOVA and Juana Maria QUINTANA
With the development of ranching and
agriculture in Mora County, Wagon Mound became a commercial and social center
of the region. Initially, cattle were brought in as part of the cattle boom of
the early 1880s. Later sheep predominated, and the railroad built a large sheep
dipping plant and an extensive stockyard. Dry farming, especially pinto beans,
also became a primary local industry. By
1902 Wagon Mound was the largest town in the sparsely populated county and a
principal shipping point for cattle, sheep, wool, and agricultural products. It
was claimed that as many as two million pounds of wool were shipped annually
from Wagon Mound.
The
1890 U.S. Census is destroyed which would have listed Gumario as a 9 year old
child. However the state of Nuevo
México. did under take a census for the
year 1885 in which Abran Moncallo is listed.
However information on this census because it so radically conflicts
with the one taken just fives before it raises some real questions.
Two records found in the Church of Santa
Gertrudis in Mora County show that two of Abran's children were married by that
year. The 1900 census also says that
Florencio Moncallo was married in 1887 also. Rufugio Gonzales
Abran Moncallo's daughter Isabel
Severita Moncayo of Mora married Eusebio Valdez 21 Jan 1887 in the Church of
Santa Gertrudis. She would have been
either 14 or 15 years old. Her elder brother Leandro Moncayo was married in
1886 to Ignacia Masearenas and they had a son Gregorio Moncayo born 15 April
1887 and baptized at Santa Gertrudis.
It is not known when Abran and his
wifedied but it probably was when Gumario was still a child for him to be
listed as a ward of an older brother. It
is possible that Gumario's parents may have even died that year.
Guadalupe County
The original county seat was Puerto De
Luna, but was moved north to Santa Rosa in 1903. That same year, after the
popular Spanish–American War of 1898, the county's name was changed to Leonard
Wood County after the Presidential physician, Major-General in the Rough
Riders, and recipient of the Medal of Honor. The name was later changed back to
Guadalupe County.The County contains whole, or parts of, several previous
Spanish land grants to include the Aqua Negra, the Jose Perea, the Anton Chico,
and the Preston Beck land grants.[4]
Florencio Moncallo and Refugia Valdez in
1900 said were married 13 years and had 8 children with only 4 living. They
were lin Las Colonias Guadalupe County NM
Rugio Valdez borm July 1868 had Adolpo Feb q889 , Andres C Feb 1892
Abran June 1897 and Oberlino April
1899 Gumaro award Oct1881
13 children but in 1910 only 8 were
living. The marriages of Florencio is
confusing as in 1930 he said he was 19 at his first marriage which would have
been about 1888 but his wife Geneva said she was 16 and
Adolfo Moncallo
1889– Registration said he didn’t know
his birthdate but thought 1890 born in Mora
but was a sheep herader he was
single as he was 27 years old and living
in Buchanan NM June 5 1917 Guadalupe
County Birth 15 Feb 1889 Mora, New Mexico enlisted 27 May 1918 to 20 May 119 birth date 15 February 1889 Ramon Cassimiro Moncayo applied for a stone VA in 1956
Death 22
Jun 1931 El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA of Pneumonia and bronchitis resident
Tucumcari NM where buried.
Andres C Moncallo
1892–1950 born 4 February 1892 in Mora
Sheep hearding and famer wife and
two children age 25 Puerto de Luna NM 5 June 1917 Guadalupe married Martina
Chavez
Fhiliberto Moncallo age 22
22 October 1895 Mora Herding sheep
Near Vaughn NM deependance mother
& father two brothers one siser under 12
single 30 May 1917 Guadalupe
Jose Abram Moncayo
1898–1972
Obrelino Moncallo
1899–
Francisca Moncayo
1901–1987
Aurelia Moncallo
1903–
Casimiro Moncallo
1906–
Mariana Moncallo
1908–
Guillermo Moncallo
1909–
Florencia Moncayo Chavez
1912–1998
Name Florencia
Moncayo Chavez
[Florencia M Chavez]
[Florencia Moncayo Moncayo]
Gender Female
Race White
Birth Date 18 Aug 1912
Birth Place Juan De Dios, New Mexico
Death Date 15 Nov 1998
Father
Florencio Moncayo
Mother
Refugito Valdez
SSN 585027169
Notes 27
Feb 1973: Name listed as FLORENCIA MONCAYO CHAVEZ; 05 Jan 1999: Name listed as
FLORENCIA M CHAVEZ
Felicitas
Moncallo Archuleta born February 1880
married 1897 to Daniel Archuletta
24 years old born Jan 1876 [10 April 1877 Mora Sheep grower B;lake Sheep Compmay Rawlins
Wyoming
[Felicitas Moncallo Moncallo] she was still in Mora sept 1918 three sons Modesto 17 Gonzalo 11 28 December
1908 Trinidad 8 She died 4-17-1937 • Mora, Mora, New Mexico Territory, USA
Gender Female
Death Date 17 Apr 1937
Death Place Mora, New Mexico
Father
Abran Moncallo
Mother
Ursulita Sandoval
Spouse
Daniel Archuleta
Had a son modesto Archuteeta that
married in Rawlins born 1902 in mora
Gumario Moncallo and Paz de Herrera
1900 Census Name Gumaro Moncalls Age 18
Birth Date Oct 1881 Birthplace New Mexico, USA Home in 1900 Las Colonias, Guadalupe, New Mexico Ward of
City 0093 Sheet Number 4
Number of Dwelling in Order of
Visitation 75 Family Number 76 Relation
to Head of House Ward
Marital Status Single Father's Birthplace New
Mexico, USA
Mother's Birthplace New Mexico, USA
Occupation Day-Laborer
Can Read Yes
Can Write Yes
Can Speak English Yes
Florencio Moncalls 31
Refugio Moncalls 31
Adolfo Moncalls 11
Andres C Moncalls 8
Abran Moncalls 2
Obrelino Moncalls 1
Gumaro Moncalls 18
Gumaro Mancallo Issue Date 14 Dec 1906 Place Baca, Colorado, USA
Township 034s
Range 048W Aliquots SE¼SE¼ Section 12
Accession Number CO0480__.163 Document
Number 4288
It
is not known when or where Gumario Moncallo and Paz De Herrera met and married.
Marriage Records searched the Immaculate Conception Church as well as the Our
Lady of Sorrow Church in Las Vegas, Nuevo México. do not document any marriage there.
An
obituary for Mary Moncallo Romero states
that she was born in 1905 in Las Vegas but it possible that she may have
been born in a surrounding little village in Guadalupe or San Miguel County. The Moncallo family migrated down from Mora
County through San Miguel to Guadalupe County.
It
is also not known when the Moncallo family came to Wyoming or even if Gumario
ever did. Paz de Herrera was married to at least three difFérent men and had a
daughter by each husband. It is not even
clear if Gumario was even married to Paz
de Herrera or if he was whether he died or deserted her. What is known is that
Mary Moncallo was in Rawlins Wyoming in 1924 when this marriage record was
found.
Marriage Records of Rawlins, Carbon
County, Wyoming
Modesto Romero age 21 Years and Mary
MONCALLO age 18 years were married Fébruary 5, 1924 in St. Joseph’s Church .
Witnesses: Antonio Romero and Esabel Romero page 6.
Antonio
and Isabel Romero were Joe Modesto Romero's brother and sister-in-law.
Mary
Moncallo Romero's had two half sisters and each of them had children. Paz had
another daughter named Mary who married a Carl Engle who lived in Chicago for
most of their lives. A son Carl Engle
Jr. was in the military and stationed in Spokane Washington in the late 1970's.
Mary and Carl Engle moved to Citrus Heights, California after retiring to be
closer to their children and grandchildren.
Another
daughter named Stella married a man named Joe Sandoval and moved to Salt Lake
City, Utah where it is believed that Joe Sandoval was a superintendent of
schools. In the late 1970's Stella and
Joe Sandaval committed double suicide using carbon dioxide. They were depressed
due to failing health problems.
Paz
lived in the south side of Rawlins,
Wyoming until 1953 or so when she then moved to Salt Lake City and lived
in a mother-in-law apartment with her daughter and son-in-law.
A granddaughter, Alice Romero of Seatle,
Washington recalls that Paz had blue eyes and that Paz said that her father or
grandfather was from England. Paz also told how she was distantly related to
President Diaz of Mexico and how the family was left money in the bank of
England that no one has been able to claim.
Paz also told stories of a relative being kidnapped by the Indians and
living with them in the southwest.
Paz
died in Salt Lake City during the late 1960's in her eighties. She was said to
have been from Las Vegas, Nuevo México.
area. She had a brother who lived
in Long Beach California for years and was a waiter at the Brown Derby in Hollywood.
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