My Provenance
How this project came about
Fannie Lalone and P.E. “Doc” Lacey Wedding Portrait
I gave a little talk in Lincoln Jan 9, 2016 at the State of NM Historical Monument in Lincoln; the occasion was the release of my book Historic Lincoln New Mexico. These are the notes of my speech, I thought they would be a good validation of my ties to Lincoln County:
Introduce Kym Eastwood > my daughter and chief mischief maker; Deb Moore> logistics manager;
Ron & Barbara LaLone> straight line to early LC
Thank Gary Cossens and his staff
Thank everyone for coming out on this snowy day
Please bear with me, I’ve had a stroke many years ago and my speech gets a little muddled at times. Also I never quite mastered Spanish so my lingo leaves a bit to be desired!
Heritage> Mom, June Lacey> born in Carrizozo 1916> to El Paso 1919> to CA 1923> SM in 1925 With Leals, Lalones, Sanchez and Lalondes> Tinnons stayed in El Paso
Grandpa, PE “Doc” Lacey, born in LockeHill San Antonio> On the Fredericksburg road> Most of his kin, Laceys, McDonalds and Taylors settled at Spring Creek just outside Fredericksburg> Some married Hazelwoods and Chessers>
Others of that crowed that came to early LC> McDonalds and Larrimores to Seven Rivers> Joy Families to Penasco and other parts of LC> Corn Family of Roswell and LC
Grandma, Fannie Lalone, born at her fathers ranch, Rancho de la Cienega del Magado or Magow as the family called it or Macgowan as an early map labeled it. Her Parents were Tiofilo Lalone and Estanislada Padilla.
Tiofilo was born in Ogdensburg NY but always said he was a Canadian on the Census. He left Kingston Ontario in 1857 headed west; in 1860 he was at O’Fallon’s Bluff on the Platt River. Just upstream from there the Platt forks, following the North Fork is the Oregon Trail but if you follow the South Fork it takes you to Colorado and then it’s an easy hop to NM.
He was traveling with a French Trader and two Spanish men.
Perhaps he remained associated with freighters, for next we find him in Missouri Plaza with a bunch of Manzano folks.
He married Estanislada in 1867 there.
Estanislada was born in Manzano, her parents were José Encarnación Padilla and Julianita Lucero.
Julianita’s family traces back to the Lucero de Godoy family of early NM; her mother was a Mirabal. Her first husband was Prudencio Torres who was father to Casimira Torres who we know as Casimira Perea in Lincoln. Prudencio was killed by Apaches in 1829.
José’s mother was Lorenza Salas who outlived three husbands. The first was José Torres and their child was Anamaria who was the wife of Ygnacio Guevara; they and their family came to Lincoln. Lorenza then married Manuel Padilla who was José’s father. After he died she married Juan Gonzales, their daughter was Juliana, she was the mother of Nicanora Márquez who came to Lincoln with her husband José Carrillo.
José Encarnación and Juilanita were the parents of four children:
The first was Senobio who was a farmer in Lincoln.
The second was Ysidro who was killed by the Horrells at the big killing at the wedding dance at Chapman’s Saloon. His widow, Catalina Girón then married Eduardo Soto, LC Probate Clerk.
Estanislada, my gr-grandmother.
The youngest was Teresa who first married Lyon Phillipowski then after he was killed, Sam Corbett.
Julianita died in 1850 and José married Polonia Herrera.
They had two children:
Manuela who married José Chávez y Baca, Saturnino Baca’s brother-in-law.
And Francisca who married Daniel McKinley; Daniel and Francisca eventually took over José ranch in the Salado Flats. The ranch produced milk and cheese which they sold to Ft. Stanton.
Daniel was a veteran of the 8th Cavalry, having won the Congressional Medal of Honor against Indians in AZ in 1868.
Saturnino Baca has been called the father of Lincoln Co. My candidates for the Godparents of LC are Francisco Herrera and Francisca Ortega, their children were:
Gregorio, who had moved to Lincoln before the Civil War; he had outlived two wives and was in Lincoln with his third wife Geralda García (Torres). In 1861 he was killed in a knife fight and his young family moved back to Manzano.
Polonia, who married José Padilla.
Gertrudis, married first Antonio Otero the Juan Chávez, they eventally settled out in Reventon.
Lorenza, married José Torres then José de Gracias Flores and they moved to Lincoln. Her older children used both the Torres and Flores surname.
Juana, married Antonio Torres of Rancho Torres, just up the valley.
And the youngest, Liberada, married Aniseto Lueras. He was a freighter, they first lived on Rancho Torres then moved out to Reventon where they became a prominent family.
So that’s my pedigree... Was that enough?
Here is some more!
Grandpa Lacey gave the Evergreen Cemetery in Carrizozo to the community and he also built the Fair Grounds and Baseball field with stands, for the folks.
Two of my aunts, my mothers sisters, got me going on my fascination with LC:
Auntie Flo Kearny kept in touch with things, she met Eve Ball in 1968 here in LC.
Auntie ‘Cille Waite was the collector, her albums got me fired up.
As I thought about it, I realized that quite a bit was known about the big events but not much was known about the not so famous or infamous people; that got me going. Then I met a gal, Kathryn Peralta, who was raised in LC, she made the comment “it is said that everybody in LC are cousins.”
As I have studied the early years I’ve found that to be largely true.
Consequently I’ve developed a database/gedcom file of about 10,000 people from only three or four generations that are inter-related... plus more in the maybe, column.
The Hispanos are relatively easy (if they were Church folks) the Anglos are not so easy.
So that’s my story!