Soy de Duval

Caballada, Eduardo Amorim, 2007 POSTED BY:   CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   AUGUST 6, 2020 I am currently writing my next book, which will be my first non-fiction book. The book is tentatively titled   Soy de Duval, the Nineteenth Century History of Duval County, Texas.   From time to time I will be sharing snippets from the manuscript. Here is my first, which is a follow-up on last week’s blog; this is “the rest of the story.” Stay tuned in future blog posts for more information on my upcoming book. Los Indios On April 14, 1878, according to witness accounts, a gang of thirty to forty Kickapoo Indians accompanied by several Mexicans and a couple of white outlaws crossed the Río Grande forty miles north of Laredo. After raiding several ranchos and killing three men and wounding numerous others along the Río Grande in Webb County, the band headed inland.   In a letter sent to United States Secretary of State William F. Evarts, a committee of local officials and leading ...

James O. Luby While doing research for a Civil War paper I am working on, I have been researching Nueces County Commissioner Court minutes to see how Tejanos were involved in the political life of their county during the conflict between the North and South. Duval County was not yet organized and was attached to Nueces County. Recently, I ran across a trove of names that will, no doubt, be a small mine for genealogists. What is also interesting, is that I was able to connect several of the names to other research I have done, which contributes to a more meaningful story rather than just names. In 1874, James Luby was the Justice of the Peace for Nueces County Precinct 3, which included San Diego and the surrounding area. First, I should point out that under state law during Reconstruction “police courts” oversaw county operations. Instead of a County Judge and Commissioners, five Justices of the Peace ran the county. At the court’s Jan. 31, 1874 meeting, N.G. Collins, E. A. Glover, and...