Augustine Caballero
Birth: 23 Aug 1844 New Orleans, Louisiana
Death 7 Jun 1912 Prescott, Yavapai, AZ
Entered Pioneer Home February 25, 1911 at age 66
Lived there 1 year, 3 months
Augustine Caballero was in the minority of the men who first entered the Arizona Pioneers' Home in that he did have a family, and in fact has descendants who continue to live in Arizona today. I had an opportunity to meet one of these descendants, Rhonda Caballero, in February of 2020. She showed me a scrap book about the family she had compiled and spoke with pride of her pioneer ancestor.
Caballero worked as an accountant and bookkeeper. He was fluent in Native American dialects and at times was an interpreter. He also worked for a time as private secretary to Governor Anson P. K. Safford, the third Governor to serve the state.
Augustine had two sons, Benjamin born in 1852 with Augustine's wife, Guadalupe Pacheco, and Manuel born in 1870 from an unknown mother. His family has remained in Pima county, AZ for many years.
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