Son of Ramon Gomez Gonzales & Matilde (Sierra) Gonzales. Married Maria Cleofes Lucero Oct 10, 1904. Married Sinforosa Castro Jan 25, 1917 in Walsenburg, CO.
Family says that Juan was working in Wyoming and on the way back home to Avondale; he was robbed, mugged, and thrown off the train.
The obituary says different. The officer in charge, sadly and prejudicially, claimed Juan was a "Mexican Laborer" and treated him like an illegal or one of the migrant workers, burying him in the potter's field, commonly known as the Platte County area. He was not cremated and his grave bears no stone. Juan was a Colorado native. He had a wife, Sinforosa (Castro) and five children living in Avondale, CO, who were also all natives of Colorado.
http://wheatlandtown.com/docs/cemetary/index.htm
SURNAME 1ST NAME: Gonzalez Juan
ROW BLK LOT: 72 3E 197
BIRTH DEATH INF VET OBIT PIC: 06-09-1933
NOTES: NS age 45
**
WHEATLAND CEMETARY OBIT:
GONZALEZ, JUAN
? – June 6, 1933
Juan Gonzalez, Mexican laborer who had been employed on the 2-Bar ranch was instantly killed about midnight Friday when he apparently fell beneath the wheels of the Billings-Denver passenger train which leaves the Wheatland station of the C & S at 11:50. The section crew found the remains strewn along the track about 2 miles south of town as they went over the road at eight o'clock Saturday morning. Agent Reed was notified, then a call to the Coroner and Sheriff's offices. Evidence showed that the body had been dragged 425 feet.
Agent R.M. Reed states that Gonzalez, in company with a companion, had been at the depot in the evening, the former expressing a bundle to Pueblo, the latter buying a ticket to Cheyenne. It was Mr. Reed's idea that Gonzalez was planning to "bum" a ride down on the freight, but evidently changed his plan and decided to "hit the blind" on the passenger. From all indications, the man had fallen to the brake beam of the train where his body caught and dragged the distance stated.
Letters in his possession indicated that he had a wife in Pueblo and was a man of about 48 years of age.
Family says that Juan was working in Wyoming and on the way back home to Avondale; he was robbed, mugged, and thrown off the train.
The obituary says different. The officer in charge, sadly and prejudicially, claimed Juan was a "Mexican Laborer" and treated him like an illegal or one of the migrant workers, burying him in the potter's field, commonly known as the Platte County area. He was not cremated and his grave bears no stone. Juan was a Colorado native. He had a wife, Sinforosa (Castro) and five children living in Avondale, CO, who were also all natives of Colorado.
http://wheatlandtown.com/docs/cemetary/index.htm
SURNAME 1ST NAME: Gonzalez Juan
ROW BLK LOT: 72 3E 197
BIRTH DEATH INF VET OBIT PIC: 06-09-1933
NOTES: NS age 45
**
WHEATLAND CEMETARY OBIT:
GONZALEZ, JUAN
? – June 6, 1933
Juan Gonzalez, Mexican laborer who had been employed on the 2-Bar ranch was instantly killed about midnight Friday when he apparently fell beneath the wheels of the Billings-Denver passenger train which leaves the Wheatland station of the C & S at 11:50. The section crew found the remains strewn along the track about 2 miles south of town as they went over the road at eight o'clock Saturday morning. Agent Reed was notified, then a call to the Coroner and Sheriff's offices. Evidence showed that the body had been dragged 425 feet.
Agent R.M. Reed states that Gonzalez, in company with a companion, had been at the depot in the evening, the former expressing a bundle to Pueblo, the latter buying a ticket to Cheyenne. It was Mr. Reed's idea that Gonzalez was planning to "bum" a ride down on the freight, but evidently changed his plan and decided to "hit the blind" on the passenger. From all indications, the man had fallen to the brake beam of the train where his body caught and dragged the distance stated.
Letters in his possession indicated that he had a wife in Pueblo and was a man of about 48 years of age.
Son of Ramon Gomez Gonzales & Matilde (Sierra) Gonzales. Married Maria Cleofes Lucero Oct 10, 1904. Married Sinforosa Castro Jan 25, 1917 in Walsenburg, CO.
Family says that Juan was working in Wyoming and on the way back home to Avondale; he was robbed, mugged, and thrown off the train.
The obituary says different. The officer in charge, sadly and prejudicially, claimed Juan was a "Mexican Laborer" and treated him like an illegal or one of the migrant workers, burying him in the potter's field, commonly known as the Platte County area. He was not cremated and his grave bears no stone. Juan was a Colorado native. He had a wife, Sinforosa (Castro) and five children living in Avondale, CO, who were also all natives of Colorado.
http://wheatlandtown.com/docs/cemetary/index.htm
SURNAME 1ST NAME: Gonzalez Juan
ROW BLK LOT: 72 3E 197
BIRTH DEATH INF VET OBIT PIC: 06-09-1933
NOTES: NS age 45
**
WHEATLAND CEMETARY OBIT:
GONZALEZ, JUAN
? – June 6, 1933
Juan Gonzalez, Mexican laborer who had been employed on the 2-Bar ranch was instantly killed about midnight Friday when he apparently fell beneath the wheels of the Billings-Denver passenger train which leaves the Wheatland station of the C & S at 11:50. The section crew found the remains strewn along the track about 2 miles south of town as they went over the road at eight o'clock Saturday morning. Agent Reed was notified, then a call to the Coroner and Sheriff's offices. Evidence showed that the body had been dragged 425 feet.
Agent R.M. Reed states that Gonzalez, in company with a companion, had been at the depot in the evening, the former expressing a bundle to Pueblo, the latter buying a ticket to Cheyenne. It was Mr. Reed's idea that Gonzalez was planning to "bum" a ride down on the freight, but evidently changed his plan and decided to "hit the blind" on the passenger. From all indications, the man had fallen to the brake beam of the train where his body caught and dragged the distance stated.
Letters in his possession indicated that he had a wife in Pueblo and was a man of about 48 years of age.
Family says that Juan was working in Wyoming and on the way back home to Avondale; he was robbed, mugged, and thrown off the train.
The obituary says different. The officer in charge, sadly and prejudicially, claimed Juan was a "Mexican Laborer" and treated him like an illegal or one of the migrant workers, burying him in the potter's field, commonly known as the Platte County area. He was not cremated and his grave bears no stone. Juan was a Colorado native. He had a wife, Sinforosa (Castro) and five children living in Avondale, CO, who were also all natives of Colorado.
http://wheatlandtown.com/docs/cemetary/index.htm
SURNAME 1ST NAME: Gonzalez Juan
ROW BLK LOT: 72 3E 197
BIRTH DEATH INF VET OBIT PIC: 06-09-1933
NOTES: NS age 45
**
WHEATLAND CEMETARY OBIT:
GONZALEZ, JUAN
? – June 6, 1933
Juan Gonzalez, Mexican laborer who had been employed on the 2-Bar ranch was instantly killed about midnight Friday when he apparently fell beneath the wheels of the Billings-Denver passenger train which leaves the Wheatland station of the C & S at 11:50. The section crew found the remains strewn along the track about 2 miles south of town as they went over the road at eight o'clock Saturday morning. Agent Reed was notified, then a call to the Coroner and Sheriff's offices. Evidence showed that the body had been dragged 425 feet.
Agent R.M. Reed states that Gonzalez, in company with a companion, had been at the depot in the evening, the former expressing a bundle to Pueblo, the latter buying a ticket to Cheyenne. It was Mr. Reed's idea that Gonzalez was planning to "bum" a ride down on the freight, but evidently changed his plan and decided to "hit the blind" on the passenger. From all indications, the man had fallen to the brake beam of the train where his body caught and dragged the distance stated.
Letters in his possession indicated that he had a wife in Pueblo and was a man of about 48 years of age.
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