Mestas, Jose Eulogio (Cañoncito, NM), part 1

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7-7-1994

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[In video collection] Family genealogy and where his grandparents came from. His grandfather Estrada used to claim to be Mexican, relatives from the Estrada family, relatives on the Mestas side. Don José was born in 1904, memories of the time when he met his first wife in 1929 while he was working with the 'traque' [railroad] in Colorado. His wife died young after she gave birth to their first child. His daughter was raised by his father as he had to stay in Colorado working to pay the medical and funeral expenses of her late wife. Family relations and his return to New Mexico, working in Las Vegas and Santa Fe. He remarried Clorinda Salazar in 1948. They had seven children, talks about his children's extended families. His wife, Clorinda provides her family genealogy. She mentions that they have fifty grandchildren. José continues talking about his family and neighbors in Cañoncito when he was a child, attending mass at the San José chapel in Cañoncito, the luminarias and celebrations in the chapel. Memories of his father's ranch and the crops he used to grow. Terrenos al tercio [sowing and taking care of the crops for a half of the total harvest with the land owner], good neighbors. A story about the mules his father bought but they used to damage the corn fields, so he decided to sell them. He remembers that a portion of the harvest was sold and other was used to feed the family. People used to live on the crops and meat of the farm animals they used to raise in the ranch. Food preservation; tasajos, chicos, apples from the  tress in la Placita. Enrique Rivera, a neighbor who owned apple trees and a story of his daughter who used to have a pet sheep that grieved for her when se died. The San José processions, his brother served in the WWI and one of his sons went to the Korean War.

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