Huerfano County, Colorado
Family Group Sheet
Joseph Cruz Benavidez



Huerfano County Genealogy
FAMILY GROUP SHEET
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HUSBAND: Joseph Cruz Benavidez
BORN: May 27, 1895 in New Mexico possibly Taos County
MARRIAGE: Walsenburg, CO. abt. 1918
OTHER MARRIAGES:
MILITARY SERVICE: U.S. Army WWI
DIED: February 1982 in San Francisco, CA.
FATHER'S NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH: Felipe Benavidez
MOTHER'S NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH: Petra Sandoval
NOTES: Joseph Cruz Benavidez was a coal miner in Walsenburg for over 25 years, which mine is unknown. He moved his family to San Francisco, California after 1946. He had a brother named Moises who was killed in France during WWI and buried in an unknown cemetery in France.
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WIFE: Maria Francesca Gonzalez
BORN March 03, 1903
OTHER MARRIAGES:Salvador Garcia of New Mexico after 1982.
DIED: 1994 in New Mexico
FATHER'S NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH: Antonio Gonzalez born before 1880, place unknown
MOTHER'S NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH: Lupe Pacheco Lucero (uncertain of order of surnames) born abt. 1880, place unknown.
NOTES: Lupe died at a young age. I am assuming that she is buried in Walsenburg as that is her last place of residence. They had two children, Rosa and "Frances". Antonio remarried a woman known as Toni. They had two children together, only known to me as Lefty and Suzy. Maria Francesca Gonzalez and her husband, Joseph Cruz Benavidez lived at 400 Harrison St. in Walsenburg. They had seven children, five of whom remain alive and living mostly in California but there are many grandchildren living somewhere near Pueblo, Colorado as one of their sons lived there for many years before moving to California.
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CHILD 1: Celina BENAVIDEZ
SEX: Female
BORN: November 9, 1921 in Walsenburg, CO.
MARRIAGE: June 6, 1942 to Claude Cordova of Walsenburg.
OTHER MARRIAGES:
MILITARY SERVICE:
DIED: April 10, 1961 in San Francisco, California
NOTES: After WWII ended, Celina Benavidez and her husband, Claude Cordova moved from Walsenburg to San Francisco. She returned to give birth to her second child, a son named Daniel Francis Cordova (b. June 17, 1946 d. March 17, 1998). There are two remaining children, I being the youngest.
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CHILD 2: Baby died - name of child unknown
SEX: unknown
BORN: after 1918
MARRIAGE:
OTHER MARRIAGES:
MILITARY SERVICE:
DIED: during the first year of life, burial place unknown but must be in Walsenburg, possibly St. Mary's Cemetery.
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SUBMITTED BY: Cheryl Brennan
DATE: 8-18-2000
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