wow. Emilie, my families history is almost identical to yours. My grandfather had a sister named Mariana who was married to a man, last name Mesa (I can't remember right now his first) and he was executed on trumped up charges. When the authorities realized their mistake they gave Mariana money that she used to come here. She had two brothers who were conscripted also, named Francisco and Felipe and they were never seen or heard from again. My grandfather made it over here through El Paso also. The name Mata has come up in my search. In fact I'll look for it but there was a Mata and I think the name was Juan de Mata. I'll have to go look. I have been trying to find records of military information also. All of this also happened around 1913-1916.

--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Emilie Garcia wrote:

From: Emilie Garcia
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Escobedo in Zacatecas
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 3:29 PM

Robert,

I thought I had lots of Escobedos [Escovedo] in my lines, but I see I have
mostly Acevedos.

However, I did find one Escovedo. She was Mariana de Escovedo, an espanola
(Spanish), who married a Pablo Jose Suriano, a mulato, around 1797, probably in
Tepetongo or Salitrillo. That means she might have been born around 1777.
Mariana was also listed in her children's birth records under various names
such as Maria Ana Guadalupe [Mata] or [Flores] or [De La Torre]. This has made
it hard for me to find her birth record so I don't know who her parents were
or where she was born. I suspect her mother may have been a Mata or Flores or a
Delatorre; those families were as prominent in Zacatecas as the Escovedos.
Sometimes they used only their mother's surname.

In the pilot site for Family Search, they have transcribed the records for
Tlaltenango, Tepechitlan, and Pinos in Zacatecas, and many Escovedos are listed
in those communities. I might find Mariana when they get to transcribing the
Monte Escobedo and other films. If her record was lost or among those not
filmed, then I am out of luck.

It is interesting to me that you have relatives from Guadalupe. My
father's sister Soledad Olague was born there. My father Guadalupe Olague
was born in Jerez in 1903. The birth records from that time were lost during
the Revolution. My grandfather Francisco Olague and his brother Ygnacio and
their brother in law Jose Davila Garcia were conscripted into some army, I
don't know which side, and were scheduled to be executed by firing squad but
Jose's wife, sister of Francisco and Ygnacio, appealed to someone and they
let them all leave on the train bound for Chihuahua City and the El Paso, Texas
border. That was in 1913 when my father was 10 years old. None of them ever
went back to Mexico.

I will do some research and see if I can find any ancestors and descendants of
my Mariana Escobedo and see if she had a common ancestor among your ancestors.
I'll let you know.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA