https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/8c12ba868f7dd8d5201d25b6aada0856.pdf 3317a755c903cba58f7146eb47e79fd3 PDF Text Text '"'I '"'I .., .., 'l 'l 'l ' ' ' ' ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CANDELARIA (Casias) MARQUEZ Candelaria Casias is one of Jose Roque Casias' eleven children. She is the fifth and last child of Jose and his first wife, Camilla. "I cannot remember my mother, Candelaria says, "she died when I was very young. I was raised by my oldest sister, Elena, until my Dad married Manuel ita Martinez." "All of us older children, Elena, Felix, Gregorita, Delfin and myself were born near Conejos, Colorado just north of Antonito, where my dad was a sheep herder. When dad married Manuelita, he moved the family to Ignacio near some of my step-mother's relatives. It took a week by horse and wagon to come the hundred miles. We camped in the tent every night. Dad homesteaded in an area called Las Lagunitas west of Ignacio near the Jacques farm. We continued to camp in the tents until dad finished a one room house built stockade style, which the Spanish people call 'jacal'. After the logs were set in the earth side by side for the walls, they were plastered inside and out with adobe mud. In those years there was enough rain for gardens and crops on the dry lands. Since he brought no livestock with him, dad started his flock from nothing by herding sheep on shares and by herding others for pay." "We attended the Harvey School when we could. Some of my half brothers and sisters attended for several years and learned English well. There were six of them (Crestino, Pedro, Faustine, Camilla, Gregorita and Andrea). I only went to school two winters which was not enough to learn English very well." ) ) ) J ) ) _) _) _) "There were no running streams in that country, but there were springs and we could dig a hole in the sandy bottom of an arroyo and it would soon fill with water. Between carrying water, herding sheep and the many other jobs to be done, we were needed at home. I can remember helping my dad make an 'era' (a threshing floor). We wet down the soil in an area near the house and ran the goats in a circle around and around on the wet earth. Their sharp hooves packed the soil very hard. When it dried, it was almost as hard as pottery. Then we piled shocks of wheat or the dry bushes of Pinto beans on the 'era' and again ran the goats over it. After removing the coarse straw and stems, we winnowed the remaining grain or beans in the wind to remove the fine leaves and chaff." ..J ..J "We did not spin the sheep's wool into yarn, but 1can remember washing and shaping and folding it into layers for stuffing pillows and mattresses." _) "Ignacio was a young town in those days and it had a neighbor, a small village just west of town in the valley below th~ slaughter house. The place was called El Arroyo. There were many stories of rough behavior coming out of El Arroyo. Flavian Martinez1s bar was there and some people remember the night Brownie Shannon shot Flavian's wife in the knee. He did not mean to. He was trying to shoot another man in the leg, but missed and got Flavian's wife instead." ..J ..J ..J ..J ..J ..J "I remember the flood in 1911. When the water first came up, a lot of the men and boys were pulling good boards and other useful materials out of the water. They stacked ..J ..J 109 J J �them up on higher ground. The next day when the men went out they found the water had risen so much higher that all of their salvaged lumber was washed away again." "After I grew up, my step-mother, Manuelita, died and dad moved back to Antonito. I stayed in Ignacio with my sister, Feliz, and soon afterwards met Luis Marquez. Luis was originally from the San Luis Valley, but had been working in the mines at Telluride. I wanted to have our wedding in Antonito. I went there first on the train and Luis followed a few days later. Very few people could attend our wedding and we were not allowed to have a reception because that was the year of the great flu epidemic. Many people were quarantined and others were afraid to go into a crowd." "Luis and I lived in Telluride for several years while he continued working in the mine, then we came back to Ignacio. We never had any children of our own, but we raised one of Luis' nieces, Louisa. Luis died after we were married only 14 years. I earned my living by doing housework for Mrs. Crigler and Mrs. Aspaas and Nell Marker." This next September 12, Mrs. Marquez will be 85 years old. We hope she has many more years of good health to enjoy. May, 1979 - Shelby Smith 110 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Candelaria (Casias) Marquez Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-05 Subject The topic of the resource Marquez, Candelaria (Casias); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Candelaria (Casias) Marquez based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the May, 1979 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marquez, Candelaria (Casias) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby