![]() ![]() ![]() The couple would welcome the births of six children, only three of whom would survive their early childhood. She, however, was married at 19 to José Felipe Grajeda Martinez. Later census records after she moved to the United States claimed her mother was born in Mexico, but that her father was born in Italy. We know that the name of Atilana’s father never appears in the records which show her marriages and the births of many of her children, suggesting her parents never married. The civil registers give us some clues about Atilana’s early life. Several years after Atilana’s move to Oregon, the city would become infamous as the place in which Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco “Pancho” Villa was assassinated. By the time of her first marriage in 1890 she had relocated to Hidalgo del Parral, a city in a rich mining area which had been known for and profited from its silver and mineral deposits since the 1600s. Much of what we know of Atilana’s early life comes from these records that have been helpfully digitized and made available for free by the LDS genealogy site .Ītilana Nayares (sometimes spelled Anayares, Anajares, Nallares and Najares ) was born in 1871 in “Pueblo de Los Pinos” in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Thanks to a law passed in 1859, the Mexican Government kept very detailed records, requiring individuals to appear before a civil judge with witnesses for births, deaths and marriages. I can’t help but wonder what she was feeling when she arrived in Dallas, Oregon in 1907 from Hidalgo del Parral in Chihuahua, Mexico. ![]() Researching her life events in civil registration books, census records and gravestones is frustratingly devoid of insights into how she dealt with the losses and upheavals in her life. To borrow a descriptor from another famous Oregonian, she was one tough mother. Yet in spite of what life threw at her, she found a way to keep going. It sure seems like Atilana Nayares Phillips had an unfair amount of sorrow in her life. ![]()
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