PHOTO
GALLERY 5
THE
ALCALÁ FAMILY
(from
Santander Jimenez to Brownsville)
(Click
on an image to enlarge)
Roots
in Santander
Jimenez, Tamaulipas
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Basilio
Alcalá and
Donaciana
Quintana
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In
Jimenez, October 24, 1970. (left to right) Raul N. Longoria
Villarreal, Raul N. Longoria Alcalá, Mauro Alcalá Quintana and Panchito
Rodriguez. |
In
Jimenez, October 24, 1970. (left to right) Maria Minerva Alcalá de
Longoria, Victoria Rodriguez de Quintana and Maria Lydia Garza de
Alcalá. Victoria was Mauro Alcalá’s aunt by marriage, and Panchito was
her brother. |
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Family
Scenes
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Mauro
Alcalá Quintana in the back yard of his Brownsville home, circa
1952. He lived in the city but he was a country boy at heart and
raised goats and a cow in his back yard. |
To
feed his cow and goats, Mauro Alcalá
had to make frequent trips to the
levees along the Rio Grande to cut grass and bring it back home to feed
his animals. |
The
outings were family affairs, and all the women pitched in to haul the
"hay" back to their animals. All the girls still have
vivid memories of these outings. |
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The
Mauro Alcalá Family
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The
five Alcalá girls of Mauro Alcalá Quintana and Maria Lydia Garza
Longoria. I married the pretty one in the middle. |
A
grandfather prouder than Mauro Alcalá there will never be. Here he
and his wife Lydia are shown with their first grandson, Raul Noe
Longoria Alcalá. |
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The
Maria Lydia Garza Longoria Family
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Jose
Garza Villarreal and his wife Juana Longoria Villarreal (back row in
center) with some of their family, at their home in Brownsville. Juana was a descendant of
Matias Longoria, original grantee of Porcion 93 in Camargo. Their
daughter Maria Lydia married Mauro Alcalá Quintana in 1939. |
On
July 31, 2004, about 60 years after the photo to the left was taken,
some of the descendants of Jose Garza Villarreal and Juana Longoria
Villarreal gathered in front of their ancestor's former home for a
similar portrait. Seated at front center is 84-year old Fernando
Garza Longoria, the youngest child of Jose Garza and Juana Longoria. |
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