Jose Francisco Ruiz
10 Apr 1851 - 19 Jul 1933
bornOpodepe, Sonora, Mexico
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyRailroad worker.His parents were killed in Sonora, probably by Apaches, when he was a child. About 1864 he moved to Pala, California, where he married Petra Castro, whose family had been in San Diego since the end of Spanish colonial rule. In the 1880s, he started moving east, working for the Southern Pacific Railroad; he stopped at Yuma, and in the Casa Grande area, and in about 1894, he arrived in the Salt River Valley. His family eventually settled in Tempe, c1910, where his son and grandsons worked for the railroad. Worked as a miner in 1915, a rancher in 1917, a driver for Baber-Jones Mercantile Co. in 1919, and a clerk in 1920. In 1921 was a salesman. Was a laborer in 1929, '30.
Became a naturalized citizen by 1910.
Lived on 1st Street in East Tempe in 1910; lived at 306 Dewey, c1911-1925,'29, '31, '32., 800 Dewey Ave in 1923.
Uncle of Carolina Martinez (IND# 8666). In 1930 lived at 330 W 8th.
BIO-Ruiz
Federal census (Tempe), 1910
Charley Ruiz, genealogy notes
Jose Maria Ruiz obit, TDN, May 1971
Jose I. Ruiz obit, AR, 1963
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, p. 75
Tempe CD, 1911-1921, -23, '30, '31, '32
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924
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