Brief Life History of Benita
When Benita Zepeda was born on 8 October 1898, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, her father, Francisco Zepeda, was 42 and her mother, Margarita Giraud Hernandez, was 41. She married Sam Castro Teneyuca on 1 May 1915, in Bexar, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. She died on 23 August 1963, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States.
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- Benita Teneyuch in household of Sam Teneyuch, "United States Census, 1930"
- Benita Zepeda, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Benita Z Teneyuca, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Manuel, Carlos, Francisco, Jorge, Juan, Luis, Jesus, Enrique, Pedro, Rafael, Roberto.
Spanish: variant of Cepeda .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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