This Week in Duval County History, November 25 — December 1

POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM NOVEMBER 25, 2019

November 25

Las Anacuas grant

Las Anacuas grant was surveyed from November 25 to December 2, 1879, by Duval County Surveyor J.M. French. Chain carriers included J.A. Dix and J.J. Dix. The map of the survey shows the road from San Diego to Los Indios transgressing the northwest corner of the grant. The Piedras Pintas and Las Anacuas creeks are joined at the center of the grant and become one.

General Land Office, File 416

November 26

Methodist Episcopal Church

Rev. Harris of M. E. Church South was scheduled to preach in San Diego for the coming year. Episcopal rector Dr. Horace Clark of Corpus Christi delivered a sermon to an active congregation. F.D. Perrenot’s two little boys were christened; Frederick Adrian and Edward Posy. Their sponsors were H.E. Parkham and C.L. Coyner, and Mary Croft, W. H. Simmons, and G. H. Reynolds, respectively. Dr. Clark preached in San Diego once a month.

Corpus Christi Caller, November 26, 1887

November 27

Two Benavides brothers served in WWII

Benavides Facts, November 27, 1942

November 28

A horrible tragedy

The San Diego Sun reported that Manuel Escobar Saenz of Santa Cruz, who had been exhibiting signs of dementia for some months, used a pocket knife to fatally slit the stomach of Emilio Adame while Adame was carrying a coil of wire on his head. Dr. Layton of Alice did what he could but Adame died. Saenz was pronounced insane by a jury trial and was in the county jail awaiting transfer to an asylum. Adame left nine children, eight of them girls.

Corpus Christi Caller, November 29, 1901

November 29

Suspects in robbery captured at Rancho Davis

Information reached R. Shubert at Concepcion, through the Rancho Davis mail rider, of the capture of Justo Vela in Camargo and the rumored capture of Leonardo Flores in Las Cuevas, México. They were alleged to belong to the band that robbed Shubert a short time before.

Corpus Christi Gazette, November 29, 1873

November 30

Mazatlan post office closed

The Post Office at Mazatlan, also known as Ella, was closed for the third time on November 30, 1930. Mazatlan was on Jaboncillos Creek eighteen miles south of San Diego and ten miles southeast of Benavides in east-central Duval County. The Olmos School in Mazatlan had thirty-two pupils during the 1906–07 school year, and the first post office in Mazatlan was established in 1909 with Santos Gonzalez was postmaster. In 1914 the population of Mazatlan was estimated at 200, but the post office closed two years later. A post office operated again from 1925 to 1930. In 1947 Mazatlan had a few scattered dwellings, a church, and the Olmos School, which closed in 1957.

Texas Post Offices, Handbook of Texas Online

December 1

Post Office opens at Rios

A Post Office was opened in Rios on December 1, 1938. The first Postmaster was Felipe V. Rios.

Texas Post Offices