CHAVES OR CHAVEZ

NAME: CHAVES or CHAVEZ COUNTY: CHAVEZ ROADS: 2WD GRID: 6 CLIMATE: Dont worry about the weather BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time

COMMENTS: CHAVEZ. Chavez County. Post office 1932/1942. On US 85, 30 Mi N of Roswell. Founded by Mrs. Mathie Griffith and named for county. CHAVES. San Miguel County. Post office 1901/1906. First postmaster, Francisco S. Chaves. Mail to Trementina.CHAVES. Socorro County. 10 mi W of Riley.CHAVES. Valencia County. Post office 1886/1892. Mail to Mitchell.CHAVES CANYON. Chaves County.CHAVES CANYON. Socorro County.CHAVES COUNTY.. Commerates the name of Jose Francisco Chaves. Created ty Territorial Legislature, Feb. 25, 1889, out of land from the county of Lincoln. Area comprises 6042 sq mi, fourth largest county in the state.CHAVES CREEN. Rio Arriba County. Rises W of Brazos Pead, enters the Chama N of Brazos. REMAINS: Inquire locally.

CHAVES/CHAVEZ. In old Galician Spanish and in Portugese, the word meant 'keys'm and was conferred upon two brothers who wrested the ancient town of Chaves from the Moors. Fray Angelico Chavez says the general spelling of the name in NM is Chavez, but Chaves is the older form. The ancestor of the NM families bearing this name was Don Pedro Duran de Chavez, a native of Derena in the province of Extremadura, Spain. This Chavez may be the Pedro Gomez Duran in the Onate Lists of 1600. Don Fernando de Chavez returned with the reconquest of 1692, and his descendants spread from the ancestral lands of Bernalillo and Atrisco all the way down to Belen.Three members of the Chavez line were governors of NM between 1822 and 1834; Francisco Xavier Chavez, 1822-23; Jose Antonio Chaves, 1828-31; Mariano Chavez, 1833-34. Jose Francisco Chaves, son of Don Mariano, was a prominent figure in nineteenth century polictical and military life. In 1865 he was elected delegate to Congress where he served three terms. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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