My mother was nine years old when her brother Gabriel Brambila died tragically. Gabriel was born March 17, 1883 in Ameca, Jal, Mexico at 8:30 p.m. Gabriel's father Felipe Neri Brambila was a circuit judge. His mother was Florencia Contreras de Brambila. Gabriel was the second child after Jose Miguel. My mother never talked about his childhood because Gabriel was twenty one years old when my mother was born. Nevertheless, his tragic death must have left a yearning for keeping in contact with Gabriel's widow and his children. Gabriel became a locomotive engineer during the turbulent years of the Mexican revolution. My mother tells me that it was not unusual for trains to operate without lights as to avoid robberies and sabotage. On the night on September 23, 1913, Gabriel was ordered to operate a train with the head light turned off. According to my grandfather's unpublished book, Gabriel's train collided with another train in a place called Los Ranchos, located between...
This blog pertains to my assimilation as an immigrant to the US. It also pertains to the family roots of Spanish families who settled in southwestern Mexico in the late thirteen century. Este blog contiene las raices de varias familias que se establecieron en la parte suroeste de Mejico, en el pasado. Este blog tambien contiene pensamientos que me ocurren acerca de mi experiencia como imigrante a los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica