When Zenaida Torres was born on 31 May 1915, in Tolimán, Jalisco, Mexico, her father, Valentin Torres, was 26 and her mother, Margarita Gomez, was 17. She married Pedro Solorzano on 13 July 1929, in Wharton, Wharton, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 30 June 1989, in Wharton, Wharton, Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Evergreen Memorial Park, Wharton, Wharton, Texas, United States.
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General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing's punitive expedition pursues Villa and provokes bitterness between Mexico and United States.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Rafael. Portuguese Ligia, Anatolio, Catarina, Paulo, Albeiro, Gonsalo, Joaquim, Lidio, Omero, Wenceslao.
Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre ). As a Jewish name, it was often adopted at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics. Compare De Torres .
Italian: habitational name from Torres in Belluno or Porto Torres in Sassari. In southern Italy the surname is sometimes of Spanish origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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