Alcaria Montano
12 Dec 1846 - 21 Aug 1923
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornAltar, Sonora, Mexico
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BiographyFarmer.Came to Arizona in 1860, entering the territory at Yuma. She had been adopted by an English nurse named Madame West, who had served under Mexican President Santa Ana, and who later provided her with an education in the United States. At age 18 she married Walter Wilson Jones and they came to the Phoenix area in 1876. Following her husband's death in 1896 she bought 40 acres of land in northwest Tempe where the Cook Christian Training School now stands. She and her family raised most of their own fruits, vegetables and grains there.
Owned land near Tempe in 1900.
Owned 40 acres in section 17, 1924.
Lived at 708 S. Lindon Lane, c1896-1923.
Irene Gomez Hormell, genealogy notes
Gloria Parra Leon, genealogy notes
Mary J. Gomez, biography form, ASU Archives
Laura Jones Curry, THM oral history
TN, 11 Jan 1896
TDN, 14 Apr 1971
Kathryn J. Gomez obit, AR, 18 Apr 1947
Margaret Jones Frank obit, TDN, 8 Feb 1985
BIO-Jones
BIO-Jones, W.W.
BIO-Gomez
HPS-175
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Tempe CD, 1905-1906
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
TH-231
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