Brief Life History of Maria Del Carmen
When Maria Del Carmen Lopez Ochoa was born on 16 September 1880, in Aconchi, Sonora, Mexico, her father, Francisco López Lares, was 43 and her mother, Beatriz Ochoa López, was 45. She married Jose Joaquin Yslas Alegria on 5 March 1896, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Miami, Gila, Arizona, United States in 1920. She died on 11 June 1956, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Carmen Yslas, "United States 1950 Census"
- Carmen Lopez Yslas, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Carmen Lopez, "Arizona Marriages, 1865-1949" (1896)
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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Arizona
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Ramon, Mario.
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US, it is the twelfth most frequent surname. Compare De Lopez .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The Story of Jose Joaquin Yslas and Maria Del Carmen Romo
The following information was compiled by Eloise Tyler Cluff, daughter of Beatrice Yslas Tyler, from interviews with Grandma Yslas (Maria Del Carmen Romo) and some of the children of Jose and Carmen. …
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