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Hidalgo County New Mexico
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Tomas Gomez
1863 - January 28, 1933 |
He was born to Genoveva Rodriguez and Celso Quiros as Candelario Rodriguez. (His name was changed to Tomas Gomez when a boss at a mine in Tombstone decided it was too hard to pronounce and changed it for him.)
He married Maria Ysabel Peres on September 25th, 1888 at Kilo 30 de Ferrocarril del Norte (Station 30 on the Northern Railroad in Mexico) where he was working at the time. They had five children.
Their oldest, Benito, was a telegrapher for the railroad and was shot by Pancho Villa’s men. Three other children died in an influenza outbreak, leaving only Torivia to come with her parents to the United States where Tomas worked in a mine at Tombstone.
They lived in Douglas and had four more children; Guillermo, Elias, Benito, and Angela. They moved to Rodeo in January 1926, bought property and built a home. He suffered a stroke and died January 28, 1933. |
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