Alcaria Montano

Farmer.

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