Mrs. Manuela Garcia |
| Posted 2008-11-15 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ May 13, 1938, p. 1 MRS. MANUELA GARCIA, AGED 89, IS CALLED Mrs. Manuela Garcia, aged 89, widow of the late Ignacio Garcia, died Tuesday night at the home her son, Pete Garcia in Wickenburg. Mrs. Garcia, the mother of 15 children, came to Arizona from Sonora, Mexico, at the age of 11, riding a burro in a caravan, settling La Paz, near, near Blythe. She was married when 13 years of age, and came to live at the Vulture 1879, where Mr. Garcia was engaged in the freighting business running teams between the Vulture mine and Maricopa, before Phoenix was designated as a station. The Garcia's established homes in both Wickenburg and at the Vulture mine, living at the Vulture most of the time, since that place boasted a school, and was at that time a thriving community. The Garcias donated 200 feet of land on which the first public school was built in Wickenburg. the present location of the primary school building. The records also I show that the Garcia family was instrumental in building the first Catholic church here. Mr Garcia not only donated the land, but made and hauled the adobe used the construction of the building. Burial services were conducted at the St. Anthony's Catholic church at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, burial following in the Catholic cemetery. Six children survive: Mrs. Francisco Hernandez, Ignacio, Ed and Pete of Wickenburg; Gabriel of Jerome, and Mrs. Chona Bunson of Los Angeles. A son Felipe, aged 70, died last November. See Also: Find A Grave |
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