Francisco Rodriguez
Francisco Rodriguez was born more than 148 years ago on June 3rd, 1871....
** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Mr. Rodriguez birth year of 1871 included...
• On January 18th, 1871 the German Empire is founded when states of the North German Confederation and the South German states unite into a single Nation known as the German Empire. .. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles....
• On April 10th, 1871 in Brooklyn, New York, P.T. Barnum opened his three-ring circus, hailing it as "The Greatest Show on Earth".
• On May 4th, 1871 the first ever league baseball game is played when Forest City of Cleveland, a strong club led by Jim “Deacon” White, came to Fort Wayne to play the Kekionga...
Fort Wayne would win the game 2 - 0
• On November 5th, 1871 the Wickenburg Massacre takes place when six stagecoach passengers en route from Wickenburg, in the Arizona Territory bound for San Bernardino, California are shot and killed by 15 Yavapai warriors.
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Carmen Rodriguez was born more than 145 years ago on February 16th, 1874 in Havana, Cuba to her Father Francisco Ponce who was also born in Havana and Mother Vicenta Chirino a native of the Canary islands in Spain.
** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Mrs. Rodriguez birth year of 1874 included...
• On March 24th, 1874 Hungarian American illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini is born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary..
• On July 1st, 1874 the Philadelphia Zoo opens... It is the first public zoo in the United States.
• On September 28th, 1874 United States Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on a successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes at a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas... He carries out their removal and relocation to designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma.
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I was unable to find any verifiable and definitive immigration paperwork, city directory information, Federal Census records, newspaper article clues, or much of anything at all for Francisco and Carmen Rodriguez.
As you see here, Francisco passed away on Monday April 16th, 1925 and Carmen nearly twelve years later on Monday March the 15th, 1937...
Some of our best clues come from Carmen's death certificate. Here we learn that she had been a resident of Tampa for 25 years when she left this World. Her occupation was listed as " Housework" and the total time in which she had spent partaking in this occupation was 43 years, she was a widow, and that Carmen owned her own home...
In the comments below I will share the limited information I was actually able to locate. They include single sentence obituaries neither of which mention children and the aforementioned death certificate for Carmen.
Francisco and Carmen Rodriguez... Beloved Husband and Wife.