Piecing together a puzzle

Continuing with yesterday's research to find the link between the family of cousin MC and one or both of my Portillo or Diaz branches, I am picking up the research with Joaquin Rascon. He was the first husband of Dolores Diaz, and they had at least the following children:
- Matilde Diaz Rascon (1888-
- Adelina Rascon
- Amelia Diaz Rascon (September 1896-
- Dolores Rascon (abt 1898-)

Joaquin and daughter Amelia appear together in the 1910 US Census, living in Nogales, Arizona. He is listed as a 64 year old shoemaker, putting his birth year about 1846. Amelia is also listed as 14, putting her birth year about 1896. Curiously, Joaquin is also listed as widowed. From the finds of Dolores in the border crossing records living in neighboring Nogales, Sonora, this was definitely not the case. At some point, Joaquin and Dolores separated, at least before 1906.

Source: Ancestry. 1910 US Census, Nogales, Arizona.

Joaquin Rascon appears in the Tucson City Directory in 1917, living at 159 W. Cushing. He also appears in the 1918 City Directory at the same address. Joaquin is mentioned in another 1918 document as living in Tucson. In the border crossing record for daughter Dolores Rascon Hernandez, dated 15 April 1918, she states that she was going to visit her father, Joaquin Rascon, in Tucson. Dolores was accompanied by her children, Francisca, Alfonso, and Juan, and all of the children listed they were visiting their grandfather Joaquin Rascon in Tucson. I'll return to Dolores R. Hernandez and Alfonso in the next post.

Back to Amelia, she married tailor Leonardo Santos on 27 July 1918 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. He was 34, she was 20 on the marriage certificate, but was actually almost 22.

Source: Ancestry. Marriage License, 22 Jul 1918.

In 1920, Amelia and Leonardo (listed as Leonidas in the census) returned to Tucson, where he was working as a tailor. They are listed together in the 1923 City Directory for Phoenix. By 1930, Amelia was living as a widow in Phoenix with her children, working as a laundress. She and family were still in Phoenix in the 1940 Census.

On 11 January 1941, Amelia signed an oath of allegiance for repatriation of her citizenship. Although she was born a citizen in Nogales, Arizona on 11 September 1896, she thought she lost her citizenship when she married Leonardo (a Mexican citizen) in Phoenix. The document is below and includes her signature. It also references as evidence her baptismal certificate and marriage certificate. The baptismal certificate is not in the images scanned by Ancestry, and she most likely has a USCIS Case File. Descendants of Amelia will definitely want to follow that lead.

Source: Ancestry. Repatriation document.

Joaquin and Dolores' oldest daughter, Matilde, married Ricardo Rojas on 4 June 1910 in Tucson. Her marriage certificate says she was 21 at the time, putting her birth year as 1889.

Source: Ancestry. Arizona Marriage Records.

The 1920 census shows Matilde and Ricardo living in Gila Bend, Maricopa County, Arizona. Ricardo was working as the manager of a grocery store. They later moved to El Paso, Texas.

As for the other sister or half-sister of Maria Luisa Carrillo, Adelina de Rosas, I have not found much on her. I did find an interesting news clipping from the Arizona Daily Star dated 15 April 1946, mentioning all of the Rascon sisters and some other members of the family. The text of the clipping is not quite accurate on the relationships of those mentioned. This one took me in another direction of research, into the family of Dolores Diaz Vda Rascon. And that's the next post.

Arizona Daily Star, 15 Apr 1946.