Florenco was born in 1887.[1] He passed away in 1929.
Florenco was a Laborer on the Santa Fe Railroad (AKA: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.) He was woken in the middle of the night to clear snow off the rails. Florenco caught pneumonia. No one would treat his sickness (because he was Mexican) until he got to Topeka. There he died.
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↑ México, Jalisco, registros parroquiales, 1590-1979, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYJT-D49 : 10 March 2018), Emigdio Gómez in entry for Florencio Gómez, 30 Oct 1889; citing Baptism, Santa María de los Lagos, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, parroquias Católicas Jalisco (Catholic Church parishes, Jalisco); FHL microfilm 221,462.
Find a Grave, database and images, accessed 28 June 2020, memorial page for Florence Gomez (1889–7 Apr 1929), Find A Grave: Memorial #50813684, citing Hanston Cemetery, Hanston, Hodgeman County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by KChaffeeB (contributor 46506715) . https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50813684/florence-gomez
"Kansas, Cemetery Abstracts," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPWC-VJVF : 20 December 2018), Florence Gomez, 1929; citing Burial, Hanston, Hodgeman, Kansas, United States, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Department, Salt Lake City, Utah.
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKT9-C51Y : accessed 6 December 2019), Florencia Gomez in entry for Mr Cecil F Gomez, Kansas, United States, 23 Jan 2002; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Wichita Eagle, The, born-digital text.
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K668-RW3 : 25 August 2019), Florence Gomez, 1917-1918.
"Texas, Laredo Arrival Manifests, 1903-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2SW-27TG : March 2018), Florencio Gomez, 1928; citing Immigration, "Manifests of Statistical and Nonstatistical Alien Arrivals at Laredo, Texas, May 1903-April 1955.," NARA microfilm publication A3437 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll .
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