Closing out (for now) on the Daltons

 

Arizona Daily Star. 25 Mar 1962.

Over the past week, I've looked back again at the Dalton branch descending from Maria Jesus Francisca Vasquez, a niece of my 4th-great-grandfather Pedro Suastegui. I'm going to wrap up for now following this branch, and I know there are some Dalton DNA connections out there who may stumble on to these posts.

I've previously covered in varying depth Hortense Dalton Ronstadt, Lupe Dalton Ronstadt, Natalie Dalton, and Louise Dalton. I have not covered in great detail the brothers, Henry A. Dalton (1888-1975), Winnall Dalton Jr. (1894-1962), or Frank A. Dalton (1897-1951). Winnall Jr.'s obituary is above.

It is worth reading Roger Atwood's 2011 journal article in the Latin American Research Review, titled Gringo Iracundo: Roque Dalton and his father (Vol 46, No. 1, 2011, link to JSTOR). The article provides a much better and more thorough discussion of Winnall Jr and his time in Central America than I can cover here.

A quick review of FamilySearch Labs' Full-Text Search locates quite a few references to Winnall Jr and his brothers, both in passport, consular records, and deeds, along with notarial records in Costa Rica and El Salvador. There are other newspaper articles and passenger records. Winnall Jr.'s WWI Draft Card states that he was involved in the mining business in Honduras and had been a major in the Mexican Army. There's more on this in the 2020 journal article by Erika Pérez titled The Dalton-Zamoranos in the Pacific Historical Review (Vol 89, No. 1, 2020, link to JSTOR).