![]() But anyway, after the marriage of Macedonia with Quirino, I don’t know if he got along too well with Quirino, but anyway, eventually Quirino and Macedonia, I guess maybe the parents, they had moved away from Saltillo and they were somewhere else. He didn’t care, because he didn’t care about religion one way or the other. She was a strong Catholic woman and they went to Mass all the time. I don’t know if he had had some other mix in there, maybe, but he was not very religious as a follower of the Jewish faith, but he didn’t care about religion and didn’t think much of religion, and his wife was very religious. His wife, Macedonia, her father had Sephardic blood in him. When he was sick and all that time, I guess, I don’t know, maybe he lost his business. The doctors couldn’t really understand how it happened that he got well, but he did. Then at one time-I guess the story-he prayed to god and he told him that if he would spare him and help him get well, that then he would dedicate himself as much as he could to doing the right thing and to being a member of the church, of the Protestant Church, and so he did get well. He was told by the doctors that there wasn’t anything they could do for him, and during this time he befriended some people who were Protestants and they started having an influence on him and praying for him and all that.Įventually he had an experience-at first he didn’t really think-he wasn’t a religious-thinking person in the first place, but eventually he got more interested in it, and then got more serious about what he was learning from the Protestant point of view. ![]() I can’t remember all that story, how it went, but eventually there came a time when he became ill, and he had, like, cancer. ![]() He would gamble and drink and party with his friends, wasn’t real serious about the family, and eventually I guess things went pretty bad. They had some children, but then he started getting kind of wild. Then he was attracted to a certain young lady, and her name was Macedonia, and he pursued her, eventually was able to marry her. He was really a big help to his employer, and eventually the employer eventually made him a partner. The baker had a daughter who was quite a bit older than Quirino, and she liked Quirino and she taught him to read and taught him to write. He didn’t really have any money or anything, but he eventually was taken in and helped by a baker who had a bakery, and the baker took a liking to him and then employed him and treated him like an apprentice and actually let him live, I think, in his home. Then there’s a whole story about his life, and he got, like, on some kind of a caravan or wagon train or something, and they let him go along, and he ended up in Saltillo, which is the capital of Coahuilla. His sister had left and went into a convent, and so after a while, after she left, then he decided that he was going to leave as well, and so he did. He ran away when he was about thirteen or fourteen because he was very unhappy with the situation in the home with his stepmother. Eventually as Quirino grew up, then he left home. Quirino’s older sister tried to protect him.īut his father worked on a ranch and was a foreman and did fairly well, I guess, in that position, and they lived in-I believe they must have been in-what’s the state of-let’s see. Turned out that she was like Cinderella’s stepmother and was very mean to the children, especially to Quirino. Then their mother died when Quirino was pretty young, and the father, Victor, he eventually remarried because he wanted to have a wife who could take care of the kids. He had three children, and Quirino was one of them. I could go back to the book and look it up and look at a family history, the family tree. I’m not sure if it was Victor, might have been, because I don’t remember. ![]() My grandfather’s father was named Quirino Muñoz, and his father, I think it may have been Victor. It’s hard for me to recollect a lot of the detail of the book, but my grandfather speaks of his grandfather, who was-he was like a foreman on a ranch, and his father, my grandfather-let’s see. Well, I have the benefit of, on my paternal side, that my grandfather wrote a history of what his recollections were of what he had learned, what he had been told of his forbearers, so it’s all in a book. ![]()
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