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During my research I interviewed my parents and grandparents to get the information I needed to get started.
Since my great-grandparents migrated from Mexico, in the early 1900's and lost touch with their own families they left behind in Mexico, most of the information is based on my grandparents' memories.
My story begins like this..........
My maternal great-grandparents were born in Pejamo Guanajuato, Mexico. They came to the United States in January of 1913 with one son and a daughter. They came through Juarez border and traveled all Texas to Los Angeles, California. They stayed with relatives in Maywood and later in Long Beach with relatives until they found a home of their own.
My maternal great-grandfather had different jobs before he went into farming in what is now know as Dominguez Hills. By then, the family had grown, there were twelve children. Ten were born around Southern California.
My great-grandfather had acres of vegatables, with cows, pigs and chickens. Even during the year of Crisis (the Depression) people came to my great-grandparents to ask for vegetables and milk so they could eat.
My great-grandfather died in 1935, at the age of 45 years, leaving my great-grandmother with 12 children, the youngest was two years old. After his death the older brothers and sisters quit school to work at other farms and the Del Amo Nursery. They still grew their own vegetables and had their animals.
My great aunts and uncles attended Dominguez Hills Grammar School and Banning High. By 1946, more than half of them had married and moved to the neighboring cities. They were scattered around Norwalk, Bellflower, Paramount, Carson and Lakewood, where they still are today.
As the children left to marry and raise their families, my great-grandmother left the farm and lived in Bellflower with one of her daughters until she passed away in 1982.
My maternal grandmother remembers a loving, happy and healthy family who celebrated birthdays and holidays always with her mother, sisters and brothers and their children.
As the years have past, only 5 of my great-grandparents children remain. The five remaining children are my grandmother, who is the oldest, one of her brothers and three of her sisters, plus their children, grandchildren,and even great grandchildren.....
But that's another story I'll save for later.
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