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working and four months after she moved to Terlingua with her
parents where her father worked as a miner at the Terlingua
Mines. The rest of her life she spent in Terlingua working
with the welfare. Years later she came back to Alpine where
she is still An Alpine resident.
Merced Cordova the boy at the far left was born in
Marathon where he helped his father who was a carpenter.
When his family moved to Terlingua he was already about fifteen.
Two years after healso worked in the mines with his
father where they got payed each day for the day's work. At
the ageof twenty-one he got married and had three sons, one
which is a policeman, the other is in the army and the third
is a resident of Odessa where his working.
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Hilario Cordova, paper, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth39406/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Marfa Public Library.