While his youth was spent in
homes of different relatives, adult Crespin had one constant – an almost
60-year marriage to Andreita. The fortune he found in his
relationship followed the misfortune of his parents and grandparents.
Let’s take a look at the
lives of his antecedents – and multiple cases of widowhood.
Crespin’s mother, Maria Josefa Montoya, was married only
two years to a man named Antonio Chavez
before he died. At the time that Josefa married Crespin’s father, Anastacio Torres, her own dad was widowed
and remarried. It appears that Josefa’s mother, Maria Manuela Garcia, died before 1834. Josefa’s dad, Juan Montoya, married Monica Ortega in September 1834, just
four months before Josefa and Anastacio tied the knot in January 1835. By the time Crespin was born, the granddad was
widowed again and married for a third time – this time to Maria Tomasa Luna in August 1847. Fortunately, grandpa and his
third wife were still around in December 1850 to take in baby Crespin. Both of them were his godparents at baptism.
Crespin’s mother had died in
early 1850 – perhaps in childbirth – and his dad died later that same year. We
know this from Crespin’s obituary. Granddad Juan Montoya – who was born in 1794
– was no longer around by the time of the 1860 census, when Crespin was
living with the family of his Aunt Guadalupe (Torres) Baca.
Now let’s look back another
generation at the parents of Maria Manuela Garcia. Her father was Francisco Xavier Garcia Jurado, an
original grantee of the Socorro Town Land Grant. He was the widower of a woman
named Juana Maria Torres before he
married Manuela’s mother, Josefa Sanchez,
in 1782 in Isleta, Bernalillo County. Josefa was the widow of Jose Manuel Silva. Josefa was married
to Silva only a couple of years.
And back one more generation:
Toribio Garcia Jurado was widowed by
his wife, Antonia Teresa Gutierrez,
(a great-great grandmother of Crespin’s) and later married Brijida Vallejos on May 12, 1767 in Albuquerque.
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