Grampa Gabriel's Story of his Mother
Contributed by Gloria Candelaria (Rodriguez)I remember Gabriel RODRIGUEZ when my husband (Gabriel's son) Joel Sanchez RODRIGUEZ and I visited him in Houston, Texas. I had met him and his wife, Sallie, in Brookshire, Texas, years before. This trip was special - I interviewed Gabriel about his origins. This is what he said:
"I remember my mother. I was born in a little town that no longer exists - it was called La Bahia. (I explained that the town still existed, and was now called Goliad). He said he remembered his mother, and he remembered the last time he saw her. Her name was Lupita, and he remembered her clearly: she was sitting behind a man (could have been his father, Eusequio Rodriguez) on a white horse; she had a belt of bullets wrapped across her chest, and she was known as an ADELITA, fighting with Pancho Villa (circa the 1915 revolution). He cried as she rode away, while she laughed as she rode away, happy and beautiful, he said. He never ever saw her again. He was very young. He said he was cared for and raised by the RUBALCADO family and he had a "brother" the same age as he was.
I went to look at the birth records in Goliad County, and I found Guadalupe Garcia's record when she gave birth to a son, unnamed, on the birth record, showing the same birthdate Gabriel used.
SO - was he a RODRIGUEZ raised by the RUBALCADO family? Or was he a RUBALCADO raised by a RODRIGUEZ family?
Comment: we now are pretty sure he was born a Rodriguez (cousin june)
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