Anna Gonzalez

Anna Rosa Gonzalez 1832-1893

Little information about Anna Rosa Gonzalez has lasted through the century since her death, and most of it is inscribed on her marble grave marker. She was born on November 22nd, 1832. She married William McC. Jordan ...

Celestine Hernandez

Celestine Bonifay Hernandez 1835-1857

The records hold little information about Celestine Bonifay Hernandez. She was born in 1835, the second of five children. Her parents were Faruco, from Florida, and Ysabel, from Lousiana. On April 27th, 1854, at the ...

Gila Gonzalez

Gila Bonifay Gonzalez 1816-1881

Gila Bonifay Gonzalez was born in Florida in 1816. She married Pedro Gonzalez, a local tax collector, on November 3rd, 1833, at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Pensacola, FL. The census noted her occupation as ôkeeping ...

Heraldo Hernandez

Heraldo M. Hernandez 1862-1884

Heraldo M. Hernandez was born in Pensacola on October 21st, 1862, to Heraldo Hernandez, a shoemaker, and Elonise Caro. They and his sister, Celesteni, lived near the intersection of Intendencia St. and Barcelona St. Although the ...

Helen Moreno

Helen E. Moreno 1845-1886

Little information about Helen E. Moreno exists apart from the inscription on her grave marker. She was born to A.C. Blount and Julia E. Washington on October 1st, 1845. She moved from New Berne, North Carolina ...

Martha Gonzalez

Martha Gonzalez 1841-1873

Very little is know about Martha Bruce Gonzalez, due to the fact that she left virtually no trace in the historical record. She was born on December 28th, 1841, in Greensboro, Alabama. She married Charles B. Gonzalez. ...

Lillie James

Lillie Anna James 1878-1957

Lillie Anna James was a remarkable woman. Born in Alabama in 1878, she raised as many as 17 children with her husband Daniel, although the US Census only contains mention of nine. One of her children ...

Peter Gonzalez

Peter Gonzalez 1810-1881

Born in 1810 to the notable Spanish immigrant Don Manuel Gonzalez, Peter Gonzalez lived in Pensacola where he worked numerous jobs including tax collector, farmer, and merchant. He was active in local politics, signing an 1832 petition ...

Ventura Flores

Ventura Flores 1836-1891

Ventura Flores was born in Cadiz, Spain, in 1836. He lived at 230 West Zarragossa Street, which meant that he lived within two blocks of the waterfront. The waterline was much closer to Main Street throughout the ...

Ciriaco Lopez

Ciriaco Lopez 1780-1861

Ciriaco Lopez was born on May 15th, 1794, in Florida. He married a woman fourteen years his junior, Dona Feliciana Ysidra de Madrid, and she gave him a son, Heraldo.

Lopez was active in local politics. ...