Gómez & Rosales Family of El Paso, Texas

Maria Dominguez de Mendosa was the dueño of a Hacienda San Julian near the present city of Chihuahua. There are various documents in the Archives of Parral that demonstrate lawsuits between landowners of west Chihuahua. In one lawsuit Maria sued one of her neighbors Miguel Cano de los Rios over water rights. Miguel had constructed a dam that held up water that Maria needed to irrigate wheat and other crops. This is a case of one of our ancestors suing another ancestor!!