During around the time I was going to City of Hope for my stem cell transplant, I knew I was going to have a lot of spare time to work on storing my photos for my website and also to investigate some of our family history. Most of my research success has come from using FamilySearch.org, a site run and maintained by the Mormon church. They do a wonderful job of archiving historical documents, not only from the US, but from México as well. I found documentation on my Mom’s side without too much trouble, but am having difficulty in finding much of anything from my Dad’s side. I will continue to look for some of his story. I did find one relative through 23nMe DNA website whose great grandmother, Eulogia Rios, is related to my Dad although at the time none of us knew how till later on through persistence and mostly luck. She lived in an area of San Luis Potosí, known as Hacienda de Bocas, quite a ways from El Rincón where Mom was from.
I will post the documents I have found in chronological order with a little explanation below each.
| Name: | Maria Yrenea Vigil Castillo |
| Gender: | Female |
| Christening Date: | 15 Jul 1867 |
| Christening Place: | VILLA DE HIDALGO,SAN LUIS POTOSI,MEXICO |
| Father’s Name: | Jose Vigil |
| Mother’s Name: | Cipriana Castillo |
| Maternal Grandfather’s Name: | Jose Maria Castillo |
| Maternal Grandmother’s Name: | Longina Alejos |
This is a record of baptism for our great grandmother, Bartolo’s Mom, Yrenea Vigil, in 1867 at Villa de Hidalgo
| Name: | Margarito Castillo |
| Spouse’s Name: | Ma. Yrenea Vigil |
| Event Date: | 07 Jan 1885 |
| Event Place: | Villa De Hidalgo,San Luis Potosi,Mexico |
This is marriage document for our great grandfather, Margarito Castillo, Bartolo’s father. Married in Villa de Hidalgo on 1885. Yrenea was 18 at time of marriage. Margarito’s birth date continues to elude.
Gumesindo Perez, cousin of Dad, baptism record in 1892, same year Dad was supposedly born. Baptism was in Mexquitic de Carmona, a long way from Villa de Hidalgo to the south east. His mother, Eulogia Rios, a cousin of Dad, baptized her three children all in this same area of San Luis Potosí, although at different churches. His record is lower left of ledger
Grandfather Bartolo was traveling to San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 25, traveling alone at time. Lists his father as Margarito Castillo
| Name: | Diega Loredo |
| Arrival Date: | 26 Jan 1917 |
| Arrival Port: | Laredo |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Mexican |
| Photograph Included: | No |
| Affiliate Record Identifier: | A3379_54-0073 |
In 1917, great grandmother, Diega Loredo, traveled to Laredo, Texas, to work in fields picking cotton with rest of the family
| Name: | Gertrudes Castillo |
| Arrival Date: | 26 Jan 1917 |
| Arrival Port: | Laredo |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Mexican |
| Photograph Included: | No |
| Affiliate Record Identifier: | A3379_12-5088 |
Mom, traveling with Abuelo, Abuela and Teofilo in January of 1917. Entered at Laredo probably on the way to work the cotton fields. Mom was 4 years old at this time
| Name: | Maria Cuevas |
| Event Type: | Immigration |
| Event Date: | 1917 |
| Event Date (Original): | 1917 |
| Event Place: | Laredo, Webb, Texas, United States |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | 52 |
| Birth Year (Estimated): | 1865 |
| Birth Country: | Mex |
Great Grandmother, Nicolasa (Mama Gasa) Cuevas, traveling with the family to Texas in 1917. Norberto, Mama Gasa, Bartolo, Diega, Mom and Teofilo were all together on this journey in 1917
Tío Teofilo was traveling with grandfather Bartolo, in 1917, when he was 1 year old. They were en route to Hillsboro, Texas, probably to work the cotton fields. Abuela Diega was also traveling with them
Tío Teofilo’s admission to Laredo, Texas, 1917
| Name: | Norberto Loredo |
| Event Type: | Immigration |
| Event Date: | 1917 |
| Event Date (Original): | 1917 |
| Event Place: | Laredo, Webb, Texas, United States |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 67 |
| Birth Year (Estimated): | 1850 |
| Birth Country: | Mx |
Great grandfather, Norberto Loredo, traveling with family to Texas in 1917. Norberto was father in law to Bartolo, so makes sense they were all together to work the fields. He was 67 at this time. Not exactly a young guy for this kind of trip
Great Grandfather Norberto’s admission to Texas in January of 1917
Dad traveling to Laredo, Texas, in April of 1917. Traveling alone, lists his last residence as Aguascalientes. Not traveling with our family then as he maybe didn’t know them and Mom was only 4 years old in 1917. The Revolución was still going on, maybe he had already been shot up and was just getting away from the violence. No idea as to why he would be coming from Aguascalientes.
In August of 1919, our grandparents lost a child, Ynasia, at the age of 7 months due to acute indigestion. They were living on a farm near Norwood, Texas which is near Waco.
Then again in February 1922, our grandparents lost another child, Cecelio, at the age of 3 months due to bronchial pneumonia. They were living on the Steiner Farm in Waco, Texas at this time. Unbelievably tough times for our family back then. Mom was 9 years old at this time but she never mentioned to any of us of her little brother’s passing.
Found this census taken in 1930 of the rancho, Cerro Grande, where our Tía Juanita’s family was from. The Lara clan can be seen on lines 3-7, 16-21 and 31-39.
Then very unexpectedly, Abuela Diega passed away in May of 1935 from pneumonia while they were living in Waco, Texas, probably living on a farm while working the fields. So now Abuelo is left to care for the brood by himself, but at least Mom is now 22 years of age and guess she picked up all of the slack cooking, cleaning and washing.
Just a few years later, Teofilo leaves alone for Waco, Texas in 1939, he being the oldest son now at 23 years of age
The year before, 1938, Mom and Dad are married in Waco. No idea as to when Mom took off with Dad to Texas, but it had to be sometime after the passing of Abuela in 1935. Tio Beto believes that this happened in 1937 when the family was due to go back to the Rincón and Mom took off and hid somewhere with Dad. So Mom is gone and Teofilo too, leaving Abuelo to care for Fidel, Bartolo, Gabriel and Norberto by himself
In 1942 Dad had to register for the draft. Mom and Dad were living on a farm in Valley Mills, TX, just outside of Waco, TX.
| Name: | María Eulogia Rios | |||||
| Gender: | Mujer | |||||
| Age: | 22 | |||||
| Birth Year: | 1868 | |||||
| Registration or Marriage Date: | 6 Nov 1890 | |||||
| Registration or Marriage Place: | Mexquitic, San Luis Potosí, México | |||||
| Spouse: | Pamposo Perez | |||||
| Mother: | Lazara Rios | |||||
| Page number: | 122 | |||||
| Household Members: |
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This is the marriage between Pomposo Perez and Eulogia Rios and how we are related to the Perez from Colton, CA. Lázara Rios is Dad’s Tía and mother of Eulogia. Pedro is Pomposo’s dad and Espiridiona Sanchez is his wife. Most of the Perez and Rios clans has moved to Mexquitic de Carmona where baptisms and marriages took place at the same church, San Miguel Arcángel.
At upper right is the official recording of the marriage of Melquiades Rios, Dad’s sister, to Santos Caldera in 1909. This is the how we became to be related to the Caldera clan from Chihuahua/Coahuila. They were both 26 at the time and originally he was from the state of Zacatecas and she from San Luis Potosí, but they were married in Nuevo Leon which is close to the TX border
| Name: | Norberto Loredo | |||||
| Gender: | Hombre | |||||
| Age: | 29 | |||||
| Birth Year: | 1857 | |||||
| Registration or Marriage Date: | 6 Ene 1886 | |||||
| Registration or Marriage Place: | Iturbide, San Luis Potosí, México | |||||
| Spouse: | Nicolasa Cuevas | |||||
| Father: | Eugenio Loredo | |||||
| Mother: | Maria Cecilia Rosales | |||||
| Page number: | 2 | |||||
| Household Members: |
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Marriage of Mama Gasa to Norberto Loredo at Iturbide, 1886. This was the name used before it was changed to Villa de Hidalgo. He was already kind of old at the time, she was 23. His parents are there, Eugenio and Maria Cecelia and her parents as well, Zeferino and Maria Nabor Reyes
Record of Delfino’s birth, 1885, Ahualuco, San Luis Potosí
Record of Delfino’s marriage to Eloisa Perez, in 1921, Coahuila
These two documents record the birth of Eulalia Rios, Delfino’s daughter, in 1921.
Delfino died the following year,1922, from the Spanish Flu which killed millions in the early 1900’s
Rios-Castillo Family History 