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Grizelda Candelaria Baca
y Baca, granddaughter to
Captain Marcos Baca de Padilla and Maria de San
listed on this page.
Grizelda was born in northern Arizona
(then Territory
of Arizona).
Her grandparents,
Marcos and Maria were born in the the
southwestern U.S.
Grizelda's other grandparents were also born in
the southwest. An Uncle Juan
Candelaria and her Aunt Lena her Aunt can be seen here.
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The following information courtesy of the
Falcon Publishing Co, (Newspaper)
Apache County, Arizona
by R.D. Dandis
St. Johns family traces its roots
to Conquistador
The Bacas of
St. Johns (San Juan) trace their ancestry
directly to the Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca and
their
family briefly held the largest Spanish land
grants ever
confirmed in Arizona.
One of the earliest settlers of St. Johns was
Don Marcos Baca, son of Don Luis Maria
Baca, who was
the holder of the 500,000 acre land grant
and a descendant
of the famous explorer of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Cabez de Vacas' descendants
eventually settled in San Miguel
New Mexico, and prospered.
Don Luis Maria Baca came north to settle
on 500,000
acres near Las Vegas, New Mexico.
(The following is from the J. Baca Romero’s
personal files); Captain Union Army, Marcos Baca was born in Los Chavez, New
Mexico. He and his wife Dona Maria Chavez
de San Juan, and others left Los Chavez for what is now Arizona. They
settled in San Juan, which is named after
Maria Chavez de San Juan
Baca. .
Captain Marcos Baca was the Justice of the
Peace in San Juan (St
Johns),
Arizona when the first English speakers entered the
Spanish speaking northern Arizona
towns.
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J. Baca Romero
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