San Elizario Genealogy & Historical Society

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1090 San Elizario, Texas 79849 Physical Address: 1521 San Elizario Rd. San Elizario, Texas

Phone #: 915-851-1682 • Fax #: 915-851-0045 E-mail: SanEliGenealogy@att.net • www.SanElizarioGenealogy.com

Los Portales Newsletter

SPRING 2019

President’s Message

Greetings Members,

It continues to be a busy time with our Conference upon us. We hope you can join us and ex-perience some new additions like the Miss Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Pageant, the Mexico Conference Day Trip to Samalayuca and the new theatrical presentation of the Oñate arrival to the area.

Thank you for your participation and don’t forget to volunteer! Al Borrego

Al Borrego gives the State Depart-

ment a tour to 16 international visi-

tors from 16 different countries.

San Elizario Historic District is an

official chicken sanctuary.

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O B I T U A R Y

Manuel Alvarado

S E P T E M B E R 9 , 1 9 4 1 – A P R I L 8 , 2 0 1 9

Manuel "The Sheriff" Alvarado has hung up his spurs for the last time on April 8, 2019 in El

Paso, TX and has rode into the sunsets of heaven. He was born on September 09, 1941 and

lived 77 years of life filled with an abundance of blessings. He was a 1964 graduate of Jefferson

High School and joined the United States NAVY soon after. He was a proud Navy Veteran and

served his country in two tours in Vietnam aboard the U.S.S. PYRO, where he earned a Viet-

nam Service Medal (with 2 Bronze Stars) and a Vietnam Campaign Medal. He was a hard

working Maintenance Technician for over 30 years at Providence Memorial Hospital and en-

joyed every minute of it. His past times included Baseball, Hunting, Photography, Softball,

Coaching, Painting, Golfing, Martial Arts and most importantly, dancing, where he always

dressed to impress! Manny was an avid and active participant of the Veterans Association of

San Elizario and was a proud and dedicated member of The Pistoleros of San Elizario, where he

played the role of "Sheriff Kerber" during the Billy the Kid reenactments in San Elizario, TX.

Truly, a one of a kind cowboy! He was always a straight arrow, and enjoyed life to the fullest by

always caring and looking out for the well-being of others. Manny's source of pride and love

was always for his family. He was a loving father, brother, uncle, husband and friend. A true

matriarch of the family! Preceded in death by his loving son Oscar Alvarado+ and granddaugh-

ter, Aliyah Martha Rodriguez+. He is survived by his beloved sister, Berthalina A. Gonzales,

loving wife Martha Rivas Alvarado, son, Manuel Alvarado Jr., daughter, Linda Rodriguez,

grandchildren, Mercedes Monique Alvarado, Anthony Alvarado, Oscar Alvarado, Roman Rod-

riguez and great-granddaughter, Allison Alexi Rodriguez. Visitation will be Sunday, April 14,

2019 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. with Vigil Service at 7 p.m. at Crestview Funeral Home. Funeral

Mass will be Monday, April 15, 2019 at 12 p.m. at San Elceario Catholic Church. Family Mem-

bers will serve as Pallbearers. Interment will follow at 2 p.m. at Ft. Bliss National Cemetery.

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MANUAL PRÁCTICO DE INGLÉS PARA LOS BRACEROS

By Dr. Robert Skaggs

Shortly after we moved from Pennsylvania to New Mexico in 1946 my mother, Martha Amelia Montes Skaggs saw an opportunity to make life easier for the incoming braceros that came into Juárez on the Flying Tortilla rail from Chihuahua. This was not a passenger train. It consisted of many empty boxcars pulled by a steam engine. These engines could go slow enough that the healthy and hearty Mexican could run alongside the car with an open door and hoist himself into the box car while running.

In the late 40’s and early 50’s the box cars were just pushed across the border into the rail yard beneath the Stanton St. bridge in El Paso and parked there to provide temporary quarters for the braceros. Mom and Dad worked together to gather farm terms that would be useful to the men who were seeking work in the English speaking U.S. Mom then translated the English terms into phonetic so the farm/ranch patrons could understand what the bracero was trying to convey in broken English. Conversely the bracero could gain some understanding of the farm boss language.

We often used as a selling phrase “hitch the tractor” which translated phonetically to “jich di tractur” which when read by a Spanish speaker came out thickly as “hitch the tractor.” “J” sounds like “H,” soften the “d” to “th,” and add a “u” sound to tractor, and you get a phrase in Anglisized Spanish. The book contained translations of words and commands that were associ-ated with work with farm animals, cooking, buying groceries, finding local transportation and requesting accommodations. One of the fine points of selling the pamphlet was page 10 or “pagina diez.” This contained phrases that were meant to attract women, such as “jelo huni” (hello honey), and “uat is ur naim” (what is your name).

The booklets were small pamphlet size that would fit into the pocket of the worker. They were brightly colored, so that they would not be easily lost. In those days, the little 40 page booklet only cost a dollar. The attraction for them was that they could learn a few phrases that sounded like English very quickly to be able to send money back to Mexico. Most saved their money and found a local store that Envía Dinero a Méjico for a small fee. Every payday, the bracero would take his pay to one of these money senders and have the majority of it sent back to the family in the interior of Mexico. A small portion was kept by him to provide food and other necessities until the next pay check or hard currency was doled out to him.

Thus the hardworking bracero would send money in Mexican currency to the family back home. Pocket money was often kept in some small bag because a wallet was an unknown item to most of the workers. That bag could become pretty heavily filled by the time that they were ready to return home at the end of their work period. Over the work period, the bracero was able to send enough money back home that his family could live for several months comforta-bly before he had to repeat the trip north.

I was a teenager in the days when the incoming men were first arriving in the small rail yard under the Stanton St. bridge. Dad, Mom, my sister Jean, and I would take 15-20 books in one hand and enter the holding area under the bridge and start hawking the Manual Práctico de Inglés para los Braceros in a loud voice. The men were exceptionally polite to all of us, but many had no money. They would ask if we would let them have a book, and they would pay us from their first pay check after they got work. We almost always honored the request. The re-sult was anywhere from a couple of weeks after passing through and being approved for work in the U.S., we would receive envelopes from all over the U.S, with one dollar bills in them pay-ing for the “loaned” book.

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Braceros — continued...

Envelopes came from the central valleys of California with postmarks from around the Salton Sea, Coachella Valley, Moreno Valley, San Joaquín, Modesto, Stockton and points in the valleys north of Sacramento all the way up to the Oregon border. Then there were ones from Montana and Idaho where the potato and beet fields were. The ones from coastal California came from the berry fields. The ones from Wisconsin from the cranberry bogs. Included with the dollar bill often was a very carefully scratched out note in phonetic Spanish telling us where the man was working and what he was doing. These were always a pleasure to read since these men had very little education, but they were gracious in their praise of the book and how much it helped them their work.

The workers usually came in the springtime, typically in late March, April and May. By the time June got here the majority of them had passed through El Paso and were distributed through-out most of the farming country of the US. So that was a big event for us for the spring- going to El Paso and working among these mostly polite, eager men to go to work and to be able to communicate with their potential boss.

At age 13, I took my first job for pay as a janitor to the Ben Franklin variety store in Las Cruces. As fall rolled around, we used to see these men wander into Ben Franklin to look at the clothing and items that they might consider either purchasing and mailing home or holding on to them until they could stuff them in a low quality suitcase to carry back to Mexico.

I quickly learned a few phrases to assist them in their choices. Often it was underwear, socks, toiletries, and nice things for their wife or children. While in those days I did not speak very much Spanish. Eventually I got to know a few of them because they had learned their way around the community and kept returning. By about the week before Christmas, they had ac-quired all that they could carry and were headed south to El Paso to cross over the border and either take the bus or train going south to home for the winter.

Even though Mother was the Spanish teacher in Las Cruces High School, I never took a formal course in Spanish either from her or any of the other Spanish teachers. All the Spanish that I learned in my early years came from the school yard or from people whom I consorted with.

My phraseology was marked with the style of language that had been isolated from the main world for many decades. After many visits to the rest of the Spanish speaking world I learned a lot about how the language has evolved and also the different words for the same item in differ-ent parts of the Latin America. I have many code words now for the same thing. For example a buzzard has different names for the southwestern U.S., Mexico, central America and farther south in South America. I even learned that “pico de gallo” means a very spicy salsa here in the U.S., and that I should never use that expression in Chile because it is a vulgar expression for part of the rooster.

Looking back upon this period of my life, it became a very valuable lesson in understanding humanity. When George W. Bush advocated for a start of the bracero work program I was in full support of it since I had experienced its success some 30 years before his announcement. I have to thank Mother for insisting when we were very small children living at Penn State where she and Dad were on the faculty, that she insisted on us little kids learning to pronounce Span-ish by rolling our R’s and softening our D’s to be able to say words correctly. Over the many years living in the America Southwest I have acquired a working knowledge of Spanish.

About her I like to say that this insistence in learning correct pronunciation and recognizing the accents on the proper syllable has helped me to become a reader/proclaimer of the holy word in both Spanish and English at the Catholic Mass on Sundays.

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THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC: 1941 - 1945

By Sam Sánchez Sr,

World War II was in effect two separate wars, one was fought in Europe and North Africa and the other in the Pacific region, a war within a war taking place mostly on the Asian mainland and the Pacific.

Drawn into the war when the Japanese Empire attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese held all the advantages. America’s Pacific Fleet was outnumbered in every type of ship and aircraft by the Japanese, who possessed the largest carrier-based air force in the world. The Japanese believed they had to win quickly, and the attack at Pearl Harbor was a crippling opening blow to the United States.

On Saipan, meanwhile, the vicious battle raged until July 9, and mopping-up operations con-tinued for another three weeks. Marine PFC Ruben Saucedo from San Elizario, Texas was one of the 3,500 Americans killed in this battle.

Bennie P. Sanchez, a resident of San Elizario, like many young men around the country, volun-teered to serve in the military. To him, patriotism was never a question. With a wife and three small daughters, he was very well able to claim military deferment, but he didn’t. Instead, he enlisted with the U.S. Navy when he was 29 years old.

Born in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1912, his parents migrated to San Elizario, Texas when he was six years old. He attended school at the Los Portales building.

Bennie completed his recruit training at the Farragut Naval Training Station in Farragut, Idaho and was assigned to serve aboard the USS FOX, a converted destroyer escort, patrolling the cold waters off the Aleutian Islands. A good torpedo man, Bennie was soon transferred to serve aboard the newly commissioned USS Ingstram, another destroyer, escorting battleship, carrier, and transport cruiser convoys going from the Marshall Islands to the Marianas and Carolines in the South Pacific where most of the action was taking place.

The U.S. Naval strength in the Pacific grew dramatically, as the ability of the Imperial Japanese Navy to fight back was reduced by massive losses.

The USS Ingstram survived a torpedo attack, but was ultimately hit by a Japanese Kamikaze plane. The impact was such that Bennie was blown off the ship. With a hip injury, he kept afloat only by his life preserver jacket (known to sailors as the Mae West). Bennie was finally rescued along with the other survivors and taken to Saipan in a hospital ship.

In the early fall of 1944, Octavio Alarcon was stationed with the Marines on the island of Sai-pan. He had fought to take the island from the Japanese, knowing it would become a base for the B-29s, and now every Marine on the island eagerly awaited their arrival. None of them had ever seen a B-29, so all hands were on the lookout for the first one.

The Marines were there when the first one touched down, and Octavio was there when Possum Hansell’s crew took off on the first bombing raid against Tokyo.

Lorenzo Borrego and Octavio Alarcon are just two of the more than 36 servicemen from San Elizario who saw action in the Pacific in World War II. As youngsters they attended school at the Los Portales building. Lorenzo enlisted in the Navy and Octavio joined the Marines. After basic training they found themselves in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. Lorenzo serving

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Pacific — continued…

aboard the Troop Transport USS ADAMS and Octavio with the 3rd Marine Division.

In early 1945, with Nazi Germany making its last painful struggle, Adm. Chester Nimitz was establishing island bases for the final assault on Japan. The USS Adams, with Seaman Second Class Lorenzo Borrego on board, picked up elements of the 3rd Marine Division at the island of Saipan. Their destination was “Island X.” Part of a familiar pattern of training, invasion of an island no one had ever heard of, more training, another invasion.

An armada of almost 500 giant American warships with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions churned across the ocean for days before the troops and sailors learned the name of “Island X,” where they would land on February 19, 1945. It was the island of Iwo Jima.

Assisting the marines onto the rope nets, Lorenzo caught sight of a familiar face in the crowd of marines. He surprised his old school mate, Octavio Alarcon, with a slap on the back and a hand shake, Lorenzo helped Octavio down the rope net and onto the Amtrac that would carry the marines to the sands of Iwo Jima.

Lorenzo Borrego came home after the war and raised a family. Isabel Loya Alarcon is one of 7,000 mothers around the country that received the much dreaded telegram informing her that PFC Octavio, her Marine son, had been killed in the battle for the Island of Iwo Jima, Feb-ruary 27, 1945.

The veterans of San Elizario are now honored in the Eduardo Pedregon Veteran’s Museum, where their youthful faces greet the visitors through their military photographs. Though their voices are silent, they still have a message for us. “We gave our tomorrow, so you can have a today.”

SUBMISSIONS

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Mailing Address Physical Address Los Portales Museum 1521 San Elizario Rd. P.O. Box 1090 San Elizario, TX 79849 San Elizario, TX 79849 Phone: 915-851-1682

Museum Hours Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Sunday 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. E-mail: SanEliGenealogy@att.net

Records Update: Call or e-mail us today to confirm your mailing address, phone number,

spouse’s name (if applicable) and e-mail.

SEGHS BOARD MEMBERS

President: Al Borrego Vice President & Veterans Chair: Ray Borrego

Vice President: Sam Sanchez Secretary: Rhiana Perez

Treasurer: Magda Flores Board Member: Aurora Bustos

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VETERANS TALK

Meetings

The San Elizario Veterans Committee meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Veterans Museum, 1501 Main Street. We want to see everyone there, especially new mem-bers. Everyone, veterans and non-veterans, is welcome to join and participate. There is no membership fee. The next meeting scheduled is for the first Tuesday of the month, December 4, at 6:30 p.m.

Museum Photos

There are many Veterans and Active Duty individuals that have roots or ties to San Elizario and have not provided an 8 x 10 photo of themselves to the Museum. Please bring a photo with some brief information of the veteran or active duty person written on the back of the photo. We provide the frame.

Memorial Bricks

We continue to sell memorial bricks in honor of veterans and active duty personnel, for place-ment on the memorial brick walk located outside the Veterans Museum. The cost of the brick is only $40. Applications can be obtained at the Veterans Museum or through our website. The bricks can be purchased for any veteran, active duty personnel, and now those in or retired law enforcement and does not need to have roots or ties to San Elizario.

Museum Needs

We need volunteers to greet visitors, log them in, mention that we sell memorial bricks, that we do have a donation box and provide other assistance as needed. If interested, contact Ray Bor-rego. This is a great opportunity for high school students to earn volunteer hours and help the community. Retirees are also welcome. Hours are 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturdays, and Sundays 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Museum Donations

Anyone wishing to donate military memorabilia to the Veterans Museum may do so. Please in-dicate the name of the donor. All donations become property of the Museum and will be dis-played in accordance to space, appropriateness and uniqueness.

In Memoriam

To the service members and veterans that passed in 2019, we remember them for their service,

and may God bless them. We remember Manuel “Manny” Alvarado, Raul Chavez, Ramon Hol-

guin, and Francisco “Ari” Solis

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Veteran Events

April 2019

April 2: San Elizario Veterans meeting, 1st Tuesday of the month, at 6:30 Golden Eagle Gal-lery, 1501 Main Street.

April 21: Mission Trail Art Market. 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Veterans will set up a booth to sell items. Please come and support the veterans and the community.

May 2019

May 7: San Elizario Veterans meeting, 1st Tuesday of the month, at 6:30 Golden Eagle Gal-lery, 1501 Main Street.

May 17: Veteran Enchilada Dinner. $6 a plate. 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Los Portales.

May 19: Mission Trail Art Market. 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed to sell so-das, water, popcorn, ice cream and veteran items.

June 2019

November 18: Last Art Market for the year. Volunteers are needed to sell sodas, water pop-corn, ice cream and veteran items.

For Sale

The Veterans Committee is selling a handcrafted wooden U.S. Flag for $160. It measures 37” x 191/4” x 13/8. If interested, contact Ray Borrego.

Veterans Parade DVD for Sale

If you would like to purchase a DVD of the 2018 Veterans Parade, please contact Lupe Sanchez at 915-867-1657 .

San Elizario Veterans Committee of SEGHS

501 c (3) non-profit

Ray Borrego, Chair Patricia Cruz, Co-Chair

Mobile: 915-383-8529 Mobile: 915-630-6285

RayBorrego99@msn.com SanElizarioVeterans@gmail.com

Eduardo Pedregon Veterans Museum & Memorial Walk

1501 Main Street, San Elizario, Texas 79849

Phone: 915-383-8529

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SHERIFF PAT GARRETT WESTERN HERITAGE FESTIVAL

By George A. Sanchez

I attended all the activities for the first Dona Ana Historical Society’s (DAHS) Pat Garrett West-ern Heritage Festival on February 2, 2019, at the Rio Grande Theater. We have three museums in San Elizario operated by the SEGHS members. They are on the Mission Trail in Southeast El Paso County. The building are owned and maintained by the County of El Paso. The three mu-seums are The Los Portales Museum, The Old El Paso County Jail Museum and the Veterans Museum.

At the Old El Paso County Jail Museum, where I volunteer on Tuesdays, on the wall is, what I thought was a painting of Sheriff Pat Garrett and his wife. I took photographs of them, took them to the Pat Garrett Festival and showed them to several people there. Nobody seemed to recognize the people in the paintings. I gave copies of them to Karla Steen, one of the present-ers.

I told Al Borrego, a San Elizario artist, and the President of SEGHS, about this and he told me that they are NOT “paintings!” They are actual pictures of Pat Garrett and his wife that were colorized in either Juarez or by Casasola, that old photography place in El Paso. That is why Garrett’s wife looks Anglo even though, according to the Leon Metz’s “Shooters” book, Garrett was first married to a Hispanic woman Juanita Gutierrez who died soon after their marriage. Sheriff Pat Garret then married Juanita’s sister Apolinaria Gutierrez with whom he had eight children!

Here is one last thing about my very interesting visit to the Festival. I told that young man who is a descendant of Sheriff Pat Garrett and also Karla Steen that I too descend from a Lincoln County Sheriff, in fact, the first one: Mauricio Sanchez! At Court House Museum in Lincoln, New Mexico they have the pictures of all the Lincoln County Sheriffs; Mauricio is number one! Now the reason my third Great-Grandfather is number one is because the first elected sheriff quit and the Governor of New Mexico at the time appointed Mauricio Sheriff to finish the term.

The first two pictures (page 10) are the unrecognizable Pat Garrett and his wife hanging at our El Paso County Jail Museum. They are followed by a copy of a picture of Pat Garrett and his

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Garrett — continued...

wife that that was sent to me by a member of DASH who got it from a descendant of Pat Garrett. Finally, from David G. Thomas’s book on Billy the Kid, from page 25, I got the picture of a young Pat Garrett that looks very much like the one we have at our El Paso County Jail Museum. Mr. Thomas, one of the presenters at the Festival, did not think that the pictures I took were of Sheriff Pat Garrett and his wife. I need to find the original photos used to make our pictures.

Volunteer

We are seeking volunteers for the Rio Grande Festival to help staff our sales & ticket tables and

be runners between the Adobe Horseshoe and Los Portales. You must be 15 years or older. You

can contact a staff member of Los Portales at 915-851-1682 or via e-mail.

You can also sign up online to become a SEGHS volunteer through volunteerelpaso.org or

utep.galaxydigital.com; volunteers must be 15 years or older. We look forward to seeing you.

Donations: We are currently seeking donations for our annual scholarship program for San

Elizario High School seniors, $500 per student.

AARP is currently seeking applicants ages 55+ to work here at Los Portales. Please call 915-

542-1705 for information.

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SPRING 2019 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

April 2019

April 21: Art Market 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., 1501 Main St. Egg hunt areas. Billy the Kid

Breakout show 1:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m.

April 23: City Council meeting. 12004 Socorro Road. 5:00 p.m.

April 25: Rio Grande Festival. Museum of Archaeology Chamizal, Ciudad Juarez, Chihua-

hua. Mexico Day Tour $24. Passport required 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

April 26: Rio Grande Festival. 8:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Adobe Horseshoe. Festival Mass 8:30

a.m. at San Elceario Presidio Chapel. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (social dancers) 5:30 p.m.

Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Pageant VIP mixer & live music Sangre Gitana 7:00 p.m.

April 27: Rio Grande Festival 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Adobe Horseshoe. 12:00 p.m. Lunch-

eon $9. Sister City Ceremony 1:30 p.m. Historic District Guided Tour & Billy the Kid Break-

out Show 4:15 p.m. DJ 5:00 p.m. Live music 6:00 p.m.

April 28: Rio Grande Festival 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Adobe Horseshoe. DJ 12:00 p.m. Art

exhibit at Golden Eagle Gallery 12:00 p.m. Ballet Folkloria y Canto 1:00 p.m. Adobe Horse-

shoe. Sister City Ceremony 1:30 p.m. Billy the Kid Breakout Show 2:00 p.m. at the Old El

Paso Jail. Oñate Expedition & “La Toma” Reenactment 3:30 p.m. at Adobe Horseshoe. Live

music 6:00 p.m.

May 2019

May 03: Music Under the Porch, outside Golden Eagle Gallery. 6:00 p.m.

May 03: San Elizario Ghost Tour 7:30 p.m. $15. Call 915-274-9531 or go online.

May 05: SEGHS meeting. Alarcon Elementary cafeteria. 2:00 p.m.

May 05: Cinco De Mayo Gala Mexicana Ballet with El Mariachi Alegre. 5:00 p.m. Adobe

Horseshoe. $8

May 07: San Elizario Veteran’s meeting. 6:30 p.m. Golden Eagle Gallery.

May 12: Mother’s Day Brunch. 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Adobe Horseshoe.

May 14: City Council meeting. 12004 Socorro Road. 5:00 p.m.

May 17: Veteran Enchilada Dinner. $6 a plate. 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Los Portales.

May 17: 3rd Friday Ghost Tours 9:00 p.m. $10. Call 915-257-3141 or go online.

May 19: 3rd Annual Farm to Farm Bicycle Ride. Registration at 7:00 a.m. The ride starts at

8:00 a.m. at Licon Dairy, 11951 Glorietta Rd. Stops at Historic District —Tedd Richardson

Park, 13066 Alarcon Rd. — Chicken Ranch/Herring Rd — The Farm then back.

May 19: Art Market 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., 1501 Main St Billy the Kid Breakout show 1:00

p.m. & 3:00 p.m.

May 26: Free guided tours. 4th Sunday of the month. 12:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. Please call

ahead 915-851-0093 or email to confirm.

May 28: City Council meeting. 12004 Socorro Road. 5:00 p.m.

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June 2019

June 01: Billy the Kid Festival. 5:00 p.m. 1501 Main Street.

June 02: Billy the Kid Festival. 9:00 a.m. 1501 Main Street.

June 02: SEGHS meeting. Alarcon Elementary cafeteria. 2:00 p.m.

June 03: Billy the Kid Festival. 12:00 p.m. 1501 Main Street.

June 04: San Elizario Veteran’s meeting. 6:30 p.m. Golden Eagle Gallery.

June 07-09: West. Texas Motorcycle Coalition (789) Conference. Adobe Horseshoe.

June 07: Music Under the Porch, outside Golden Eagle Gallery.

June 07: San Elizario Ghost Tour 7:30 p.m. $15. Call 915-274-9531 or go online.

June 11: City Council meeting. 12004 Socorro Road. 5:00 p.m.

June 15: Swan Lake. 7:00 p.m. $45.50 adult, $12.00 child. Adobe Horseshoe.

June 16: Art Market 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., 1501 Main St. Billy the Kid Breakout show 1:00

p.m. & 3:00 p.m.

June 21: 3rd Friday Ghost Tours 9:00 p.m. $10. Call 915-257-3141 or go online.

June 25: City Council meeting. 12004 Socorro Road. 6:00 p.m.

June 30: Free guided tours. 4th Sunday of the month. 12:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. Please call

ahead 915-851-0093 or email to confirm.

San Elizario Beautification Project

San Elizario Genealogy & Historical Society (SEGHS) has organized a project to maintain the Community Cemetery clean year-round. Through community donations, the society will organ-ize regular cleaning of cemetery grounds and additional projects, if necessary and if donations permit. Your donation is tax-deductible and a letter will be remitted to you regarding the re-ceipt of your donation. You will be listed in the “Friends of the San Elizario” webpage. The pro-ject will be fully managed by the SEGHS Cemetery Beautification Committee. The Committee Chair is Becky Munoz Romero; she can be reached at 915-216-2472. Please make your check payable to SEGHS. Thank you for your help. SEGHS Attn: Cemetery Project P.O. Box 1090 San Elizario, TX 79849

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LOS PORTALES GIFT SHOP

Coins & Prints

Cards by Candy Mayer $12.99 Coins of San Elceario Chapel & Socorro Mission $10.83 each

Framed Candy Mayer print $15.00 small, $20.00 large Greeting card set by Sam Sánchez $8.66

Prints by Candy Mayer $16.24 small, $32.48 large

Prints by Sam Sánchez $5.41 small, $8.66 large

Books The Bells of San Elizario by Amelia Montes Skaggs and Dr. Samuel R. Skaggs $16.24

Census 1684, Census 1692, & Census 1841 $10.83 each From the Pass to the Pueblos by George D. Torok $27.06

From the River to the Lomas Forever by Mary Linda Endlich $20.00

Pass of North Heritage Corridor:

Tenacious Immigrants $3.25

Indian Trails, Caravans and StageCoaches$3.25

Railroad and Highways$3.25

The Pass of the North and the Creation of the U.S. Mexico Border $3.25

Pirates of the Desert by Sam Sánchez $21.00

San Elceario Cookbook $16.50

What God Has Joined Together by Marta Estrada $20.00

And More

Billy the Kid Magnet $3.25

Ceramic church hangings: San Elceario, Ysleta, & Socorro $5.41 each

Ceramic church magnets: San Elceario, Ysleta, & Socorro $5.41 each

Holy cards & pictures $0.54

Lucero family CD $21.65

Oaxaca Native handmade rosaries $8.66

Passport to National Parks $8.66

Postcards $1.08

Religious prints $2.00 each

San Elizario Baseball team prints $5.41

SEGHS T-shirt $12.99

Texas lapel pins $3.25

Visit San Elizario CD $10.83

Veteran’s CD $10.83

We accept cash, checks and credit cards. Please note, prices include tax. If you would like your

items mailed, please be advised there will be an additional charge for shipping and handling.

Call or e-mail us today with your order.

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Austin: News from Tejano Genealogy Society of Austin Corpus Christi: News from Spanish American Genealogical Association (SAGA) Harlingen: News from Rio Grande Valley Hispanic Genealogical Society Houston: News from Hispanic Genealogy Society of Houston Laredo: News from Villa De San Agustin - Laredo Genealogy Society San Antonio: News from Los Bexareños Genealogical & Historical Society Victoria: News from Victoria Hispanic Genealogical & Historical Society of Texas

This section is dedicated to our sister Hispanic Genealogy Societies throughout the state. Thank You, LBGHS, for providing the information

Other Genealogy News

Albuquerque: News From Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico

Albuquerque: News From New Mexico Genealogical Society

Pueblo: News From Genealogical Society of Hispanic America

St. Louis News From Center for French Colonial Studies

Los Pistoleros de San Elizario

The San Elizario Genealogy & His-torical Society opens the museum daily, Tuesday through Sunday to the general public, & admission is free. The museum is staffed by knowledgeable volunteers that will offer additional information to visi-tors.

The Pistoleros de San Elizario Re-enactment troupe performs two free shows of the “Billy the Kid Breakout” every third Sunday of the month, March through Novem-ber, in front of the Jail.

Old El Paso County Jail Museum 1551 Main Street • San Elizario, Texas 79849 915-851-0093 / 915-851-1682

Regular Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am - 2pm • Sunday: 10am - 4pm Sunday: 12pm - 4pm • Open during special events.

From Around The

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Maximum Texas Notary Fees

Acknowledgments $6 for first signature

Jurats $1 for each additional signature

on same document

Certified Copies $6 per certificate

Certified Copies of

Notarial Records $0.50 per page

Protests $4 for each bill or note

$1 per notice served

$4 for certificate & seal

Depositions $6 for certificate & oath

$0.50 per 100 words

All Other Notarial Acts $6

San Elizario Genealogy & Historical Society

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1090 San Elizario, Texas 79849

Physical Address: 1521 San Elizario Rd. San Elizario, Texas

Phone #: 915-851-1682 • Fax #: 915-851-0045

E-mail: saneligenealogy@att.net • www.SanElizarioGenealogy.com

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Notary Fees For Active SEGHS Members

Acknowledgments $1 for first signature

Jurats $.50 for each additional signature

on same document

Certified Copies $1 per certificate

Certified Copies of

Notarial Records $0.25 per page

Protests $1 for each bill or note

$.50 per notice served

$1 for certificate & seal

Depositions $1 for certificate & oath

$0.25 per 100 words

All Other Notarial Acts $1

San Elizario Genealogy & Historical Society

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1090 San Elizario, Texas 79849

Physical Address: 1521 San Elizario Rd. San Elizario, Texas

Phone #: 915-851-1682 • Fax #: 915-851-0045

E-mail: saneligenealogy@att.net • www.SanElizarioGenealogy.com

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