Camargo (Mexico)

Antonia Salinas was born in 1909 in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She talks about working on a farm planting cotton and crossing the Rio Grande River near Camargo.

Aurora V. Diaz talks about schools, churches and entertainment. She was born 13 January 1895, in Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Interview conducted in 1987 by Diana Yvette Garza. Digital transfer completed on 24 October 2013 from the analog cassette tape.

Municipal archives collection contains photostat copies of birth, marriage, and death registers and land records for the lower Rio Grande community of Camargo from the late 18th through early 20th centuries.

Vidal Falcon was born in Rancho Puertecitas, Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico on April 28, 1887. They discuss old Spanish customs on asking a girl's parents for their daughter's hand in marriage. The intended groom was to sit in a committee of two or three men.

Interview conducted in April 1969 in Houston, Texas by Leonarda Falcon Cardenas, daughter of Vidal Falcon.