*Was Frances Chireno ever married to a Sanchez?* Jan Barton wrote: >In the different census records these families are all listed on the same >few pages, so I'm sure they were neighbors in the Alazan area and had >children who married neighbor's children. >Lots of double-first cousins. >The Chireno's and Molandes' families were like this--several Chireno >brothers and sisters married Molandes' brothers and sisters. >I recall seeing the name you mention--oh I remember--my uncle Floyd Molandes >was killed in Germany in WWII. His was the first body brought home to East >Texas after the war was over and there was a big deal about the arrival of >his body and it being taken to Cason Monk Funeral Home. I just recently >visited the Daily Sentinel archives in the East Texas Center at SFA and read >the newspaper articles. Either my grandparents didn't have them or they >somehow got lost--I had never seen them before. >Someone named Ynfante was one of the pallbearers. And the name Jane Ynfante >is signed in the guest book for my other Uncle Joe Molandes' funeral in >1950. So, I assumed they were close family friends, if not relatives. > >I'll have to look at census records but I do know that after Joe Cloudy >died, Josephine Mora Cloudy married John Henry Molandes. They had 3 >children. Then Josephine died and John Henry married Francis Chireno (a >widow). Most of the Chireno children had married and did not live at home >by then. But they mostly married Molandes kin and still all lived in the >same area according to the Census records. >OH, and then John Henry died and Francis remarried--someone named Montes I >believe. >I will check with my Great Uncle Jack Molandes--he is still alive and a >great source of family information. He was married to Mary Chireno. so he >will know more about Jane, I'm sure. >I'll see him at a family reunion in April. >I can also email his daughter--she would surely know if that is one of her >mother's sisters. >I have found the cemetery records that are on-line to be extremely >helpful--although some of the dates on the tombstones are incorrect, >according to family Bibles. > >Jan > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lois Burden" <msburden@sbcglobal.net> >To: <TXNACOGD-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:57 AM >Subject: Re: [TXNAC] Cloudy/Mora > > > > >>*Do you have any knowledge of my grandmother, Jane Mora Ynfante? I'm not >>sure, but I think Mora was her first husband's last name, and I can't >>find her maiden name. Maybe Chireno? I'm not sure. My mother's name was >>Finey Ynfante Michelle. >>Lois Burden >>* >>Jan Barton wrote: >> >> >> >>>Searching for more information on my great-grandparents-- >>>Joe Cloudy and Josephine Mora Cloudy. >>>Children were Effie Cloudy Molandes and J D Cloudy. >>>Believe that Joe's parents were Deleres and Effie Lazarine Cloudy. >>>Josephine was child of Parlola Mora (possibly Piola in census) and (I am >>>told) Sterling Asa Moore (they were not married). >>>Thanks, >>>Jan Dobbs Barton >>>Tyler, TX >>> >>> > > > > >