María Dolores (Estrada Martínez) Knight (1890 - 1979)

Born 21 Jul 1890 in San Matéo-Fresnillo, Zacatecas, México

Ancestors

Wife of José Hermilio Gerzayn de la Luz Ugarte Rodríguez — married 25 Apr 1921 (to 31 Dec 1926) in Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México

Wife of Abner B. Knight — married 16 Feb 1930 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States

Descendants

Died 4 Aug 1979 at age 89 in San Diego, San Diego, California, Estados Unidos de América

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Biography

Dolores was born in 1890. She arrived in the United States on January 6, 1927, and became a U.S. citizen on December 18, 1936. Dolores died in 1979. ^[1]

Dolores was the first woman in North America to earn a First Grade commercial wireless radio license (October 16, 1916, Washington, D.C.); served as private telegrapher to President Venustiano Carranza and worked as a secondary school English teacher; fiancée of Oliver Sidney Read and Theodore Sidor Puirko.

31 diciembre 1926: En la ciudad de México, a las 17 diecisiete horas, 45 cuarenta cinco minutos del día 31 treinta y uno de diciembre de 1926 mil novecientos veintiseis, ante un Filiberto . . . , juez tercero, . . . de Registro Civil comparicieron: el Ciudadano Gerzayn Ugarte y la Señora María Dolores Estrada, el primero de Tlaxcala, de 44 cuarenta y cuatro años, soltero, comerciante; y la segunda queda de Zacatecas de 36 treinta y seis años, soltera, vive en la casa número 6 seis de la Plaza de Santa Catarina; y presentaron cria a la niña Ofelia Ugarte y Estrada, que nació en la casa #137 ciento treinta y siete de la calle de Guanajuato, de día 21 veintiuno de enero de 1922 mil novecientos veintidos, a las 8 ocho horas; hija natural de los comparientes quienes la reconocen y piden que expresamente sus nombres consten en esta acta. Fueron testigos los Ciudadanos Rafael González y Glafiro Ugarte, mayores de edad, solteros, comerciantes; el primero de Apám, Hidalgo, vive en la casa número 88 ochenta ocho de la calle de Velásquez de Léon; y el segundo de Tlaxcala, vive en la casa número 32 treintidos de la calle Lisboa, Leído esta acta, la ratificaron y firmaron.

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 21 July 2020), memorial page for Dolores E. Knight (21 Jul 1890–4 Aug 1979), Find A Grave: Memorial #184103339, citing Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA; maintained by Larry K (contributor 46933229), headstone photo.

• "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHNT-SQB : 4 April 2020), Maria Dolores Estrada in entry for Graciela Night, 10 Feb 1931; citing El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States, certificate 12711, Texas Department of Health, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,281,361.
• "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VD8B-1PQ : 5 December 2014), Maria Dolores Estrada in entry for Graciela Night, 10 Feb 1931; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K987-BL6 : 27 July 2019), Dolores Knight, Councilmanic District 2, San Diego, San Diego Judicial Township, San Diego, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62-27, sheet 16B, line 66, family 445, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 448.
• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPCQ-VT1 : 26 November 2014), Dolores Estrada Knight, 04 Aug 1979; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JT45-N3N : 20 May 2014), Dolores Knight, Aug 1979; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• Fact: Burial (7 August 1979) Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 11 July 2019, 08:04), entry for María Dolores Estrada-Martínez(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L441-Q7L); contributed by various users.