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1.	Title: Birth Certificate Page: birth certificate of son Jose Maria Mantijo
2.	Title: Arizona, Deaths, 1870-1951 Page: accessed 09 May 2013, Icidro M. Herrera, 1933
3.	Title: Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates
4.	Title: Assumption Church (Roman Catholic) (Florence, Arizona), Baptismal Certificate, Isidro Mendez Page: Baptismal Certificate 16 Apr 1933, impressed with the Church seal. (Rev. Basilio Delgado, OCD, was pastor 1921-1930 and 1931-1940.)
5.	Title: Arizona, Arizona Department of Health Services, Birth Certificates
6.	Title: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
7.	Title: Arizona, Select Marriages, 1888-1908 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;
8.	Title: Arizona, Select Births and Christenings, 1909-1917 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;
9.	Title: Web: Western States Marriage Index, 1809-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
10.	Title: Arizona, Arizona Department of Health Services, Birth Certificates Page: Accessed 5 Apr 2014
11.	Title: U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
12.	Title: Arizona, County Marriage Records, 1865-1972 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;
13.	Title: Arizona, Birth Records, 1835-1915 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;
14.	Title: Arizona, Death Records, 1887-1960 Page: Arizona Department of Health Services; Phoenix, AZ, USA Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;
15.	Title: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;
16.	Title: California, death certificate, 1984
17.	Title: Eloy Enterprise Page: 15 Jul 1971, p. 8 Publication: Location: Eloy, Arizona, United States;
18.	Title: 1940 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
19.	Title: U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Page: Number: 527-84-7369; Issue State: Arizona; Issue Date: 1965. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
20.	Title: Funeral Card
21.	Title: California, Death Index, 1940-1997 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;
22.	Title: U.S., Index to Alien Case Files at the National Archives at Kansas City, 1944-2003 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;
23.	Title: California Death Records Publication: Name: Rootsweb; Location: http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi;
24.	Title: California Death Records Publication: Name: Rootsweb; Location: http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi;
25.	Title: Gravestone Page: Palo Verde Cemetery 343 West 10th Avenue Blythe, Riverside, California United States
26.	Title: William Henry Roll, private collection Page: Photograph, William Henry Roll, private collection
27.	Title: Death Cetificate Page: death certificate of son Isidro Herrera
28.	Title: Carmen Herrera, interview 21 Apr 2005 Page: Telephone interview with Juana Carmen Herrera Roll

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Jr Barbosa, Facebook post 21 Jul 2016
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010135171136
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[Edited for clarity.]
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On the corner of Alsdorf and 11 Mile Corner Road in Eloy. There's a empty lot now. My dad made us tear down the cuartos and grandma's house in the early 70s.
Source: Swanton, John Reed. The Indian Tribes of North America. Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1953.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015015025854
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015015025854?urlappend=%3Bseq=378
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The Pima Indians lived in Oquitoa.
Silverbell, Arizona, Timeline
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1860 high-grade copper ore discovered; several companies mining
1883 copper prices dropped and mining dropped off
1902 The Development Company of America organized the Imperial Copper Company; the town of Silverbell established
1903-1911 Imperial was the major mining operation in the Silver Bell Mining District, there were other companies operating in the district on and off until the early 1930s.
1904 Arizona Southern Railroad, owned by Imperial Copper Company, opens Red Rock to Silverbell branch
1907 Sasco smelter built
Silverbell has a population of 3,000
18 Aug 1904 the Post Office is established at Silverbell, Arizona
1911 bad shaft fire and drinking water shortage led to bankruptcy for the Development Company of America
1915 The American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) begins mining
1921 ASARCO halts production
1923 Rosa Mendez arrives at Silverbell with the Montijo family
1930 ASARCO ceased operations in Silverbell
1934 the rails to Redrock are torn up; Sasco smelter closed
1948 The town of Silver Bell is established four miles southeast of the old Silverbell site
"Arizona Marriages, 1865-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ29-1HC : accessed 26 August 2015), Mauricio Leon and Rosa Mendez, 29 Sep 1910; citing Tucson, Arizona, reference no. 114, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 2,210,640.
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Name: Mauricio Leon
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Age:
Spouse's Name: Rosa Mendez
Spouse's Birth Date:
Spouse's Birthplace:
Spouse's Age:
Event Date: 29 Sep 1910
Event Place: Tucson, Arizona
Father's Name:
Mother's Name:
Spouse's Father's Name:
Spouse's Mother's Name:
Race:
Marital Status:
Previous Wife's Name:
Spouse's Race:
Spouse's Marital Status:
Spouse's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I09322-7
System Origin: Arizona-EASy
GS Film number: 2210640
Reference ID: no. 114
Analysis: Rosa Mendez
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Rosa Mendez b. 30 Aug 1896, Oquitoa, Oquitoa, Sonora, Mexico
Rosa Mendez m., Prob. Oquitoa, Sonora, Unknown Bet. 1912 (ae 16)-1917 (ae 21):
#1 Unknown b. 1914 or 1818
#2 Unknown b. 1916 or 1920
#3 Unknown b. 1918 or 1921
#4 Unknown b. 1919 or 1923
#5 Unknown b. 1921 or 1925
#6 Unknown b. 1922 or 1926
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Rosa Mendez m. Jose Maria Montijo, Sr., Companion ~1928
#7 Jose Maria Montijo, Jr.'s birth certificate says he was the 7th child of Rosa. b. 14 Jan 1929
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Rosa Mendez m. Jose Molina Herrera Companion ~ 1932; married in ~ 1953
#8 Icidro M. Herrera b. 8 Feb 1933
#9 Eleuterio Jesus Herrera b. c1934
#10 Juana Carmen Herrera b. c1938
Source: Oral Interview with Rosa's daughter, Juana Carmen Herrera y Mendez, 1998.
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Rosa came to the United States with the Montijo family in 1923.
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Carmen said that Rosa's family was "Mayan," but I believe that the correct name of the ethnic group was Mayo. The Mayo lived in Sonora, Mexico.
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Rosa Mendez was the child of Ignacio Andrade and Carmen Mendez. That Rosa took the surname of her mother indicates that the father abandoned the family about the same time as her birth. Ignacio had another wife, whose name is unknown, with whom he had children. Rosa came to Arizona from Altar, Sonora, Mexico, in 1922 with the Montijo family, who were not related, but were close friends. At first she lived in the mining town of Silverbell, Arizona, with the Montijo family. She moved to Eloy, Arizona, with the Montijo family. Many of the Montijo family lived in Eloy. Rosa married Jose Maria Montijo in Eloy, where they lived.
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Rosa and Jose Maria had one son, Jose Maria Montijo in Jan 1929. Jose Maria, Sr., left Rosa soon after Jose Maria, Jr., was born. [I later discovered that this was not true, and that Jose Maria Montijo had died before Jose Maria, Jr., was born. I have the death certificate.]
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Later Rosa married Jose Martinez, who had changed his name to Jose Herrera when he moved to Arizona from Chihuahua, Mexico.
I remember Carmen (my former wife) talking about a ranch in in the central valley of California that she and her parents lived on for a time, the [Tagus Ranch]. In 1912, Hulett C. Merritt founded Tagus Ranch, which at 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) was the largest fruit ranch in the world. Until its close, Tagus Ranch produce was known the world over, and was served in the finest restaurants throughout America. At the end of World War II, a portion of Tagus Ranch served as a German POW camp.

Note: H1433
Note: Possibly a Montijo was her first husband.
DETACHED: 10 May 2013 -I disconnected Adolfo Valencia, b. 1905, Altar, Altar, Sonora, Mexico. I do not think that his wife Rosa Andrade de Valencia is the same person as Rosa Mendez. I left him and his family in the database as detached persons.
NOTES ABOUT ALTAR, SONORA
IGI Film numbers:
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Bautismos 1771-1774, 1796-1835, 1851, 1858, 1860-1862 (incluyen matrimonios y defunciones) - FHL INTL Film [ 687227 ]
Bautismos 1862-1875 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687228 ]
Bautismos 1875-1883 - FHL INTL Film [ 687229 ]
Bautismos 1883-1889 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687230 ]
Bautismos 1889-1896 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687231 ]
Bautismos 1896-1904 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687232 ]
Bautismos 1903-1914 - FHL INTL Film [ 687233 ]
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Confirmaciones 1859-1948 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687238 ]
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Información matrimonial 1858-1862 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687243 ]
Información matrimonial 1863-1868 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687244 ]
Información matrimonial 1869-1871 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687245 ]
Información matrimonial 1872-1876 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687246 ]
Información matrimonial 1877-1879 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687247 ]
Información matrimonial 1880-1884 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687248 ]
Información matrimonial 1884-1885 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687249 ]
Información matrimonial 1886-1888 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687250 ]
Información matrimonial 1889-1893 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687251 ]
Información matrimonial 1894-1897 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687252 ]
Información matrimonial 1898-1902 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687253 ]
Información matrimonial 1902-1906 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687254 ]
Información matrimonial 1906-1910 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687255 ]
Información matrimonial 1911-1919 - VAULT INTL Film [ 687256 ]
IGI Batch numbers:
Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe, Altar De Altar, Sonora, Mexico
Batch: M600361
Marriages 1764 - 1862
Marriages 1851 - 1885
Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe, Altar De Altar, Sonora, Mexico
Batch: C600361
Baptisms 1764 - 1862
Baptisms 1862 - 1875
Source: Gobierno del Estado de Sonora [Mexico], Datos Estadisticos del Municipio de Altar, 1997. <http://www.salud-sonora.gob.mx/>
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[Altar, Sonora] Población Total 7,353.
NOTES ABOUT THE SURNAME MENDEZ
Lead: The Mendez name is Jewish in origin. The Mendez family was in both Spain and in Portugal. They are probably not in Barcelona because the Jews were expelled from Spain during the Inquisition. You can probably find more history on the Mendez name in Jewish bookstores.
NOTES ABOUT THE INDIANS
Yoeme (Yaqui) and Yoreme (Mayo) Indians
Source: John P. Schmal, Are You Related to the aztecs? Uto-Aztecan Languages Spoken Throughout Mexico and the Western United States <http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/aztec.html>.
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The idea that Sinaloa, Sonora, California, and New Mexico might be the site of Aztlan is a very plausible explanation when historical linguistics are considered. "The north-to-south movement of the Aztlan groups is supported by research in historical linguistics," writes the anthropologist, Professor Michael Smith of the University of New York, in The Aztecs, "The Náhuatl language, classified in the Nahuan group of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages, is unrelated to most Mesoamerican native languages." As a matter of fact, "Náhuatl was a relatively recent intrusion" into central Mexico.
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On the other hand, if one observes the locations of the indigenous people who spoke the Uto-Aztecan languages, all of their lands lay to the northwest of the Valley of Mexico. The northern Uto-Aztecans occupied a large section of the American Southwest. Among them were the Hopi and Zuni Indians of New Mexico and the Gabrielino Indians of the Los Angeles Basin. The Central Uto-Aztecans -- occupying large parts of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora in northwestern Mexico -- included the Papago, Opata, Yaqui, Mayo, Concho, Huichol and Tepehuán. It is reasonable to assume that where there is a linguistic relationship there is most likely also a genetic relationship. Thus, it is very possible that the legendary Aztlan or another ancestral home of the Aztecs -- was located in the Southwestern United States.
Yaqui: A Native American group who originated in northern Mexico. During the early twentieth century they were persecuted in Mexico and fled north across the border. Many settled in Arizona.
NOTES ABOUT ELOY, ARIZONA
Eloy was founded in 1919 as a farming community.
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In the mid 1940's cotton was king in Eloy. Large numbers of migrant workers followed the cotton harvest and were needed to hand pick the cotton. Frontier Street in Eloy on Saturday night in the 1940's was sometimes a wild and lawless place. Where most towns in the southwest had their lawless phase in the late 1800's or early 1900's, Eloy was perhaps the last town in the west to be "cleaned up".
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During the particularly violent years of 1948 and 1949, a series of murders of lawmen and citizens, 22 in all, prompted the governor to declare martial law. One Eastern newspaper labeled Eloy "The Toughest Town in the U.S." Of course, all that is in the past now, making for colorful history. In fact Eloy has matured into a nice, comfortable place to live.
Eloy is an agricultural/travel/commercial center located along the growth corridor between Phoenix and Tucson. In 1902, the Southern Pacific Railroad built a switch about six miles west of Picacho, which they named Eloy.
In 1918, W.L. Bernard, J.E. Meyer and John Alsdorf purchased the east half of the Eloy section and drilled a well. They subdivided the land and called it Cotton City. They also bought land west of Eloy and divided it into tracts for raising cotton. In 1919 an application was made for a post office, but the name Cotton City was rejected in favor of Eloy. The Pinal County community incorporated in 1949.
NOTES ABOUT SILVERBELL, ARIZONA
By 1865, high grade copper ore was being shipped from mines in the Silver Bell Mountains to Yuma and then by ship to Baltimore for smelting.
Timeline for Silverbell, Pima, AZ
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1902 organization of Imperial Copper Co.
1904 rail link to Red Rock
1904 town of Silverbell established
1911 Imperial Copper went bankrupt
1915 American Smelting and Refining Company began operations
1921 American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) shuts down
1930 ASARCO ceased operations in Silverbell
1934 rail link to Red Rock and smelter dismantled
The following description is derived from "Ghost Towns of Arizona" by James E. and Barbara H. Sherman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
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Silverbell known as the "Hell hole of Arizona" was a copper mining boom town that sprung up in the Silverbell Mountains following the organization of the Imperial Copper company in 1902. With the construction of a rail link between Red Rock and Silverbell in 1904, the pace of mining increased and the size of the camp swelled to 3000. In 1911 the company went bankrupt, but the mines were bought out by the American Smelting and Refining Company, which began operations in 1915 and continued until 1921 when low copper prices shut down operations. In 1934 the rail road tracks linking the mine with Red Rock were torn up and the smelter was dismantled. The new town of Silverbell [check source: this should b e "Silver Bell."] is located some four miles southeast of the old mining camp.

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