Voters in 1860 election gold mine for genealogists

In 1860, 315 men voted in the first election in what would become Duval County. The poll list offers a gold mine for genealogists to search for ancestors. Below is the list of voters with this caveats: 1) while the handwriting of the election judge is fairly readable compared to the 1860 census taker, there are still some names that are not clearly decipherable and 2) the spelling of names were sometimes changed to comply with the more common spelling of that name.

I have done my best to transcribe this list but offer no guarantees as to its complete accuracy. Keep in mind also, that many of these individuals were challenged in court. Some of the challenges indicated that the men did not live in the San Diego or Agua Poquita but were from Mexico. Other challenges claimed that some individuals did not exist at all. Clearly many names are verifiable in the historic record and many others are recognizable in the area today so the likelihood is that they were real voters.

Perhaps some were not from the area, but that is not the point here where I offer them as possible genealogical nuggets. Enjoy!

Poll Book of the election held in Precinct No. Nine, County of Nueces, on the sixth day of August, A.D. 1860:

Voter	Voter	Voter
Charles Lovenskiold	Ricardo Miller	Eduardo Gray
Félix A. Blucher	Ruperto Longoria	Ramón Cantú
Antonio Gonzales	Cayetano López	Antonio María García
Jesús Pérez	Juan Arredondo	Ignacio Guzmán
Juan Gonzales	Antonio Arguijo	Nicolás Pena
Julián Hinojosa	Pedro Galindo	Telesforo Pena
Jacinto Salinas	Basilio Pérez	Juan Gonzales
Eugenio Rivera	Cayetano Ríos	Anselmo Ríos
Servando Ibarra	Rafael Salinas	Juan Sáenz
Claudio Vela	José María Espinoza	Diego Rivera
Asunacio (?) Hernández	Juan Bautista(?) Gonzales	Marcos Pérez
Miguel de los Santos	Javier(?) Ríos	Macario Estrada
Eulalio Canales	Polinancio (?) Olivares	Mauricio Góngora
Anastasio Guadiana(?)	Francisco García	Francisco Bazán
Teodoro Vela	José María González	Antonio Martínez
Francisco Pérez	Ramón Solís	Pedro López
Jesús Serna	Segundo Carrión	Juan Garza
Félix Vela	Simón Treviño	Jesús Solís
Cecilio Balerío	Eusebio Charles	Valente Pérez
Encarnación García	Alejo Pérez	Ildefonso Charles
Néstor Vásquez	Ángel Arguijo	Francisco Charles
Antonio López	Julián Ramírez	Pedro Balerío
Ignacio Balderas	Juan Treviño	Benito Regalado
Cristóbal Aguayo	Felipe García	Epifanio Rodríguez
José María Guzmán	José María Salas	Vicente García
Domingo Salazar	José María G. Pérez	Juan Ramos
Dionisio Arguijo	Antonio Gonzales	Juan Recio
Romaldo Martínez	Andrés de León	Marcelino de la Cruz
Juan Balderas	Pablo Garza	Anastasio Pérez
Manuel Pérez	Faustino Arambulo	Dionisio Mendieta
José María Rodríguez	Juan Lugano (?)	Rafael Laureles
José María Guzmán	Refugio Guzmán	Brigidio Flores
Jesús Arguijo	Juan Antonio Hinojosa	Joaquín Gutiérrez
Pedro Garza	Luis García	Rafael García
Bruno (?) Figueroa	Gabino González	Lázaro Pena
Timoteo Velásquez	Antonio Solís	José María Cavazos
Juan Álvarez	Eleuterio Barrera	Juan Hinojosa
Dionisio Salinas	Manuel Bazán	Luciano Balderas
Antonio Vera	Manuel Rodríguez	Rafael Amaya
Juan Sánchez	Juan Rodríguez	Rafael Serna
Leandro Barrera	Pedro Arredondo	Rafael de León
Francisco López	Cecilio Ramos	Luis Carrión
José María Saláis	José María García	Luis Hinojosa
Félix Benavides	Urbano Hinojosa	Dolores Hinojosa
Urciro (?) Rangel	Macedonio Rangel	Antonio Rangel
Jesús Rangel	Encarnación Salas	Gabriel Rangel
Cecilio Rangel	Agapito López	Rafael Barrera
Antonio Morales	José María Lozano	Francisco Ríos
Antonio Castro	Pedro Ríos	Antonio Garza
Andrés Guajardo	Tomas Zamora	Santos Vela
Benito Ramos	George Moya	Miguel Hoffman
Pedro García	Julián García	Teodoro Hinojosa
David H. Sloss (?)	Martin Guerra	Francisco Zambrano
Candelario Arredondo	Francisco Moya	Crispín Flores
Anselmo Salas	Manuel Balderas	Dolores Valdez
Antonio Franco (?)	Francisco Alvarado	Anselmo de León
Roque Vásquez	Guillermo Garza	Cándido Maldonado
Ventura Vela	Justo Vela	Esteban Vela
Manuel Guerra (?)	Marcelo Ramírez	Candelario Gonzales
Carlos Guerra	Eleuterio Olivares	Thomas S. Parker
Santiago Ramos	Arcarío Olivares	Santos Ramírez
Roque Salazar	Cayetano Molina	Luz García
Félix Barrera	Juan Pena	Cesario Garza
Juan Garza Zarabid(?)	Felipe Balerío	Felipe Olivares
Estanislado Ibáñez	Felipe Cantú	José María Ibáñez
Félix Adame	Juan Gonzales	Rafael M. López
Cecilio López	Viviano López	Pedro Reyna
Antonio Maria Guerrero	Felipe Guerra	Julián Guerra
Jesús Guerra	Miguel López	Rafael García
Juan Nicolás Ibáñez	Luciano Reséndez	Manuel Reséndez
Gregorio Barrera	Timoteo Villarreal	Evaristo Canales
Dionisio Moya	Evaristo López	Benito Gonzales
Gumersindo Vela	Juan D. Lozano	Sabas de la Garza
Francisco Altamirano	Rafael Martínez	Cipriano (?) Guerra
Gabriel Elizondo	José María Bazán	Eleuterio Sáenz
Hilario García	Quirino (?) Lopez	Cayetano Villarreal
Narciso Paz	Alejo Saldívar	Vicente García
José María Valdez	Sabas Fuentes	Antonio Mireles
Modesto Garza	Ramón Buentea (?)	Julio Guevara
Norberto Salazar	Teófolo Gil	Agustín R. Treviño
Julián López	Jesús Adame	Agustín Guenlis (?)
Cayetano Bermúdez	Antonio Bazán	Carlos Bazán
Guadalupe Bazán	José Ángel Molina	Juan Rosa
Víctor Rodríguez	Juan López	Andrés Vargas
Secundino (?) Cantú	Leocadio Salinas	Ignacio Cantú
Bartolo Flores	José María Salinas	Juan Espinosa
Rafael Hinojosa	Poluianci (?) Cuellar	Agustín Garza
Jorge Alanís	Teléforo Balderas	Antonio Días
Jesús Paderes	Fabián Gutiérrez	Juan P. De la Garza
Bonifacio Valle	Museslado (?) García	Ricardo Villareal
José A. García	Teodosio Sandoval	Santiago Rodríguez
Joaquín Vela	José María Ramírez	Jorge Flores
Marco Rubio	Juan Antonio García	Jesús Silvas
Antonio Cantú	Antonio Ramírez	José María Cantú
Francisco Altamira	Antonio Balderas	José María Herrera
Camilo Balboa	Berman Montalvo	Luciano Ramos
Santiago Canales	Agapito Muñoz (?)	Julián Leal
Antonio Cerda	Nicanor Divina (?)	Antonio Pérez
Máximo Rodríguez	Juan Vela García	Severo Musquis
Rafael Quintana	Rafael Hernández	Librado Vela
Gerónimo Hernández	Pablo Garza Guerra	Rafael Vela
Antonio (?) Acosta	Elogio Adame	Norberto Navarro
Cleto Vega	Pablo Rosas	Policasio (?) López
Francisco Cantú	Felipe Moreno	Ramón Hernández
Eduardo Guerra	Narciso Olivares	Ildefonso Pérez

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Joe Ibanez | September 8, 2013 at 6:30 pm | Reply (Edit) Seriously! Wow. Well in that list there is also an Agustin R. Treviño whose name is identical to my maternal grandfather's name, which my mother always contended, that they had the same name. So it's a double yahoo for me!!! I wish I had access to the copy of the original voter list. Some of the names are close, to what ancesty and US census documents show, but not exactly. So I am intrigued. BTW which Ibanez clan is your wife a descendant? Alfredo E. Cardenas | September 3, 2013 at 1:50 am | Reply (Edit) Glad this helped with your search. I don't know if I mentioned but my wife is an Ibanez and she recognized some of the names as possible ancestors too. Joe Ibanez | September 3, 2013 at 1:49 am | Reply (Edit) Alfredo mll gracias, amigo! I have been trying to pin down the earliest date that I can place the Ibanez clan in San Diego and I believe that this is excellent documentation for that. I will note this in my genealogical repository. You are absolutely right – it's a genealogical treasure trove! Well done!