Based on the political and social unrest motivated by the activities of Pancho Villa, José Marciano O. Aguayo Ybarra a.k.a. "Shorty" Aguayo (1904-?) came to the United States from his native State of Aguacalientes, Mexico in about 1917. He worked at various times for the Copper Belt, Mississippi, Kansas and Texas Railroad (Tyler, Tex.) and as a sugar beet worker at Sugar City near Pueblo, Colo. before finally settling in Sedgewick, Colo. in 1922. In 1929 Marciano Aguayo married Jovita Ortega Gonzalez (1908-2000). She too had emigrated from her native State of Chihuahua, Mexico to Colorado (via El Paso, Tex.) in 1926 because of the effects of Villa's Mexican Revolution. In Sedgewick, the couple had six children: Herlinda (b.1931), Anita (b.1933), Alberto (b.1935), Alicia (b.1937), Emilio (b.1939) and José (b.1941). Marciano Aguayo worked as a farmer providing sugar beets for the Great Western Sugar Company before landing a job as a lineman for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1941. A job he held until 1973. All of the Aguayo children went on to pursue undergraduate and graduate level degrees. Their youngest son, José Aguayo is the founder and director of the Museo de Las Américas, Denver. Colo.
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