José de la Encarnación Chávez

  General Notes:

Baptisms, Nuestra Señora de Immaculada Concepción de Tomé, Vol. I, p. 26

Hijo: José de la Encarnación Chaves
Padres: Mariano Chaves y Manuela Romero
Padinos:. José Luis Carillo y su madre, Catalina Barreras, de Belén ²⁶⁶

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
José Encarnación Chávez, son of Mariano Chávez and María Manuela Romero, married María Rita Torres of Belén. Their wedding date is not known, due to missing registers, but the parents of both are known from the baptisms of their many children. Their known sons were as follows: José Francisco Sebastián, born 20 Jauary 1823, at the Plaza de los Trujillos in Belén, who married Encarnación Luna; Francisco de Paula, 20 Apr 1831, who married María Manuela Padilla, both pioneers of La Ciruela near present Wagon Mound; Juan Andrés, 24 Feb 1833; José Marcelino, 23 Jun 1839, and believed at first to be the "José" who married Encarnación Luna, José Estanislao, 15 May 1841; and José Manuel, who married Manuela Gallegos at La Cueva in Mora County, 19 Oct 1866, and then Juana Romero at La Ciruela, 22 Nov1868.

Their daughters were: María de los Santos, born 1 Oct 1825; María Ynez, 25 Jan 1835; María de los Angeles de las Nieves, 5 Aug 1836, whose marriage to a José Chávez, a relative, was revalidated at Los Jarales, 8 Mar 1857; María Martína, who married José Rey García, 14 Mar 1842; and María Manuela, 1 Jan 1844, who married Juan García in 1856.Their father had died by 1857, when a daughter's marriage was revalidated. The widowed María Rita Torres, with some of her married and single children, joined other families of Belén which moved north to the newly-opened territory which is now eastern Mora County. The date of this migration, from marriage and other data, can be placed at about 1860-1863. They first went to the already settled valley of La Cueva near Mora, where María Rita died at the age of sixty on 17 Jul 1863. The family then moved east into new country and founded La Ciruela in 1864.

Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, pp. 321-322
(Kindle Locations 14452-14483)

José married María Rita Altagracia Torres, daughter of Mariano Torres and María Ysabel Armijo.²⁵² (María Rita Altagracia Torres was born on 19 Jul 1802 in Plaza de los Trujillos, Nuevo Mexico, Nueva España ²⁶⁶, baptized on 25 Jul 1802 in Tomé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁶⁶ and died on 17 Jul 1863 in La Cueva, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)