A shoemaker in Altar

 

Made in Ideogram. Vicente Campuzano, 1852.

In 1852, my 3rd-great-grandfather Vicente Antonio Campuzano was working as a zapatero (a shoemaker) in Altar, Sonora, Mexico. He had recently started a second family with Maria Concepcion Amado, who would have just delivered their first daughter Dolores in the previous year. The imagined scene above shows Vicente mending a boot in his open air adobe workshop.

I picked 1852 for this scene as that was the year of the Pimeria Alta census, which I misspelled and misdated as 1851 in my 2012 post on Vicente's origins. Now I would like to see a digital copy of the original 1852 census of the district of Altar, as I think there's more than just Vicente in that record. There should be a reference to Pedro Suastegui, his wife Ana Maria Orosco and her mother Reyes Valdes in Altar.

Two of Vicente's sons from his first family became tailors. Jose Maria Campuzano moved to Los Angeles, while older son Francisco moved to Tubac in the Arizona Territory.