The Salazar Lineage

Sidebar by Ken Jessen

Local history - January 2005 - Colorado Central Magazine - No. 131 - Page 34
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Francisco Esteban de Salazar y de Sandoval (b. 1800) married Maria del Carmen Valdez. Two of their children were Refugio and Eusebio Salazar. Eusebio married Amada Garcia and Refugio married Felipe Cantu.Eusebio and Amada's son, Juan Bautista Salazar (b. 1884) married his first cousin, Antonia Cantu (b. 1884), daughter of Refugio and Felipe.The Cantu family had also moved from New Mexico to Los Rincones.

Juan and Antonia had a son Henry Salazar (b. March 10, 1916), who married Emma M. Montoya (b. April 23, 1922) and their children include Ken and John Salazar, who now serve in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.


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