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| Surname: Sosa |
Given Name: José Ignacio |
Sex: M |
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| Place of Death: Tumacácori |
Date of Death: 09/28/1772 |
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| Race or Tribe: De Razón |
Residence: Buena Vista; Tubac |
Title: Marido de María Emerenciana Romero; Vecino de Tubac-1767; Buried in the church at Tumacácori |
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Burial Place: Tumacácori-in the church |
Translation: (Spanish - soda ash; Basque - grasslands) |
| Notes: Son of Manuel José de Sosa and María Nicolasa Gómez de Silva, he was distantly related to the Anzas through their mother, María Rosa Bezerra Nieto. José was probably living on the Guevavi ranch, where he had been raised, at the time of the Pima rebellion and was definitely part of the group of refugees fleeing to Terrenate at the end of November, 1751. Married to María Emerenciana Romero, a local Buena Vista girl, they had one six-year-old child at the time of the uprising. They moved back to the San Luis Valley after the turmoil and their family continued to grow. Sometime in the 1760's he moved his family to Tumacácori during the times of intense Apache troubles when all the residents of the San Luis Valley were moving closer to Tubac. He died at Tumacácori and is buried beneath the floor of the old Jesuit church. In the Tubac census of 1767 he is listed as having 4 daughters, 1 son, and 3 extra people living in his household. |
