Soy de Duval

  POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 September 30 Dubose Post Office closes in 1929 Dubose was on the Texas-Mexican Railway fifteen miles southwest of Benavides. A post office was established there in 1911 with John F. Dubose, after whom the community was named, as postmaster. In 1914 the community had a general store and cotton gin. Estimates of the Dubose population remained at twenty-five from the mid-1920s to the mid-1940s. Its post office was closed in 1929, and the community no longer appeared on maps of the area by the late 1940s. Martin Donell Kohout, Handbook of Texas Online October 1 Sundry Items of Interest from Pena There were four candidates for county judge. Ramon Guerra shipped three cars, 50 potros, to San Antonio. Dr. J. Grant shipped 25 cars, 400 head of beeves, and two cars, 28 saddled horses to Gainesville. He was paid $13 and $14 American money. It was exceedingly low price. W.H. Jennings trying to gather 240 yearlings which he lost the previo...

  POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM SEPTEMBER 23, 2019  September 23 Federal Marshall named for Duval County The Galveston News reported that J.J. Sparrow was appointed deputy U.S. Marshall for Duval County. He was stationed in San Diego. New deputies were named in addition to regular deputies, brought about by a need for a stronger law enforcement surveillance needed due to Mexican outbreak and Las Vacas several months earlier. Brownsville Herald , September 23, 1908 September 24 Mexican land grants made in Duval County A year after Texas won its independence, Mexico was still making grants in Duval County. On September 24, 1836, Santos Flores was placed in possession of Agua Poquita grant by the State of Tamaulipas. The grant was well known to many persons and pointed out to surveyor by several aged citizens and by adjoining landowners. Flores had been in possession since 1831 except when through attacks and incursions by wild Indians they were forced to a temporary abandon...

  POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM SEPTEMBER 16, 2019  September 16 Politics heats up Large political meetings held in Concepcion, Mendieta, and La Rosita on September 16, 1888.  Not much fighting but intense. Close contest expected.  Laredo Daily Times , September 19, 1888 September 17 Artesian wells discussed by Stock Associations The Nueces and Rio Grande Livestock Associations met in Corpus Christi to discuss the possibility of drilling artesian wells for livestock and agriculture use. The well site proposed was either in Nueces or Duval Counties. The members raised $10,000 for the effort and if it offered promise there was no doubt whatever amount was needed could be easily raised. The Corpus Christi Caller surmised that irrigation farming would be in vogue within five years.  The Daily Herald (Brownsville), September  17, 1892 September 18 Cabbage crop Some individuals are interested in planting 100 acres of cabbage on an experimental basis. They h...

  POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 September 9 San Pedro del Charco Redondo grant Field notes were taken for San Pedro del Charco Redondo grant owned by Rafael Ramirez. The surveyor was R.C. Trimble. Chain carriers were Crispin Gonzales and Segundo Garza. The Charco Redond o was a water hole shaped in a circle located in the Palo Blanco Creek which formed the southern boundary of the grant. The Charco Redondo was the starting point of the survey and ran up the middle of the creek for 5,290 varas. Los Olmos Creek nicked the top northwest corner of the grant. General Land Office September 10 Schools open Public schools opened in San Diego on September 10, 1888. The male school was under the management of John T. Rossetti,  while the girls’ school was under Addie Feuille and Pragedes Garcia.  Laredo Daily Times, September  19, 1888 September 11 Benavides News Horse buyers were in town. Some were buying for the Mexican government; $20 horses all of...

  POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 September 2 News from San Diego On September 2, 1886, Julia Tijerina de Garcia, 25, a native of Santander, Mexico died in San Diego. She was the niece of Don Juan De Anda and on April 8 had married Don Romulo G. Ramirez in San Diego. Corpus Christi Caller , September  26, 1886 September 3 Horrible Murder A jealous episode at the Ranch of Mateo Sendejo, six miles west of Mendieta, resulted in the death of Sendejo’s daughter and horrible mutilation of her jealous husband. Eusebio Diaz, 28, who had worked for N.J. Delamar about five years had been injured on the head the previous year and had been “easily excited” ever since. He became enamored with fourteen-year-old Casimira Sendejo and insisted on marrying her despite her young age. The priest had a problem with marrying them so they “hideaway” to San Diego where the county judge married them. Casimira reportedly repented at the last moment because it was against her father’...