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Mexican Revolution Refugees Quotes
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They had the Mexican Revolution, con (with) Francisco Villa, and all the trains, and the buggies. All the people [were leaving]. So my mother came in a buggy, and my dad just got with other people and they drove on horses to Texas. My mama was from San Luis Potosi and my dad was from Allende or Morelos, in the Chihuahua state. My mother came through…Piedras Negras! My dad was only nine, my mom was about five years old. They were children when they got here. My mama didn’t come with the rest of her family. She stayed with her godmother in San Luis City. And so later on one of her brothers went and got her from there, [and brought her to Poth, Texas]. So my mother was in Poth, in Poth City, and my dad he was in…Fall City. My mother was fourteen and my dad was twenty. My dad was working in the railroad in Fall City. They met in a ranch dance. Beatrice Sanchez interview by Dr. Margo McBane and Joseph Rivera, Sept. 9, 2006, San José, CA.
My parents were born in Mexico. My father was born in 1900, and my mother was born in 1903. That was during the revolution of… Pancho Villa, because my father never liked him. He never wanted to hear his name...because he did a lot of damage to the people. Like he was in charge, he was a king… If he told a man, “I want your wife.” He could take her. And that’s what my grandfather didn't like. So they…and a lot of people, all came to L.A [from Durango] in 1906, I remember my father telling me. [They came to] San Bernadino mostly. There were all ranches, just ranches in Southern California and Duarte… So then they... all decided to spread out, all the families that came. Some of them stayed in Los Angeles, San Bernadino… My father and his father, and his mother and all, they decided to come to the crops, you know, grapes, and prunes, and all that around here. But [my mother] came with her family, and [my father] came with his family. My mother had...three sisters and two brothers… My uncle told us that he was nine-years-old, when their mother and father had an accident and they were both killed… Different people took [the kids] in. So one sister came to live in Lemoore and...the other one stayed in San Bernardino. My mother was already a teenager, she was the oldest...like fifteen and she married my father, he was about three years older.” Leandro Villareal Interview by Dr. Margo McBane, Ph.D. and Joseph Rivera, 8/28/2008, his home in San José, CA.
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B4SV Exhibit Topic Two: Slide 003.1
