It should be noted that "Don" is a title of respect and not a given name. The "A" is for Antonio and the spelling of the middle name is apparently a variation. The Death Certificate lists the name as Antonio Nerio Montoya, but the tombstone, as shown in the photo spells the name as Neneo.
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San Juan Prospector, June 7, 1890
Editor Prospector:
With the death of Don Nerio, as he was familiarly called, has gone away one of the oldest and most respectable settlers of Rio Grande County. Just eight days before his death on May 2, near the Mexican Plaza, he fell from his wagon in trying to manage a run-away team and had two ribs broken. He was thought in a fair way to recover, when the end came unexpectedly, the result probably of internal lesions.
Mar. Antonio Nerio Montoya was born in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, or pure Spanish blood, on March 17, 1827, and was therefore a little over 63 years old when he died, Mary 22, 1890.
He came to Guadalupe, Conejos County, then Colorado Territory, in the year 1863, with some of the first settlers of Southern Colorado. The oldest settlement, in fact, established itself on the left bank of the Conejos River, at Guadalupe, as early as the year 1856, when the present site of the Conejos Court House was an Indian camp. Mr. Montoya lived there only five years, and in 1868 moved to the present Rio Grande County, where he took up his beautiful ranch on Pinos Creek and there resided the last 22 years of his life. He had but an ordinary literary education, but his religious an moral training had been excellent, in the midst of the blessings of a very happy family life. His mother, who is still living, 96 years old and half blind, was of the old type, and instilled into the minds of her 16 children the principles that make strong men and exemplary Christians. Hence Mr. Montoya, by his sober and industrious habits became one of the wealthiest ranchmen of this part of the State, and reserved in himself an unstained reputation of honesty and uprightness. He was all his life a faithful, practical Catholic, and even in trying circumstances never swerved from his faith. The late pioneer Bishop Machenhebeuf constantly cherished for him the greatest esteem and affection,k and never failed to use his cordial hospitality. God alone knows the many acts of kindness that he has shown to all the needy, and how many families of his countrymen owe him a still decent living. And as to his own family, he was indeed an exemplary husband and a most loving father, and as such leaves them a heritage more precious than gold, the remembrance of an irreproable life.
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San Juan Prospector, June 7, 1890
Editor Prospector:
With the death of Don Nerio, as he was familiarly called, has gone away one of the oldest and most respectable settlers of Rio Grande County. Just eight days before his death on May 2, near the Mexican Plaza, he fell from his wagon in trying to manage a run-away team and had two ribs broken. He was thought in a fair way to recover, when the end came unexpectedly, the result probably of internal lesions.
Mar. Antonio Nerio Montoya was born in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, or pure Spanish blood, on March 17, 1827, and was therefore a little over 63 years old when he died, Mary 22, 1890.
He came to Guadalupe, Conejos County, then Colorado Territory, in the year 1863, with some of the first settlers of Southern Colorado. The oldest settlement, in fact, established itself on the left bank of the Conejos River, at Guadalupe, as early as the year 1856, when the present site of the Conejos Court House was an Indian camp. Mr. Montoya lived there only five years, and in 1868 moved to the present Rio Grande County, where he took up his beautiful ranch on Pinos Creek and there resided the last 22 years of his life. He had but an ordinary literary education, but his religious an moral training had been excellent, in the midst of the blessings of a very happy family life. His mother, who is still living, 96 years old and half blind, was of the old type, and instilled into the minds of her 16 children the principles that make strong men and exemplary Christians. Hence Mr. Montoya, by his sober and industrious habits became one of the wealthiest ranchmen of this part of the State, and reserved in himself an unstained reputation of honesty and uprightness. He was all his life a faithful, practical Catholic, and even in trying circumstances never swerved from his faith. The late pioneer Bishop Machenhebeuf constantly cherished for him the greatest esteem and affection,k and never failed to use his cordial hospitality. God alone knows the many acts of kindness that he has shown to all the needy, and how many families of his countrymen owe him a still decent living. And as to his own family, he was indeed an exemplary husband and a most loving father, and as such leaves them a heritage more precious than gold, the remembrance of an irreproable life.
It should be noted that "Don" is a title of respect and not a given name. The "A" is for Antonio and the spelling of the middle name is apparently a variation. The Death Certificate lists the name as Antonio Nerio Montoya, but the tombstone, as shown in the photo spells the name as Neneo.
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San Juan Prospector, June 7, 1890
Editor Prospector:
With the death of Don Nerio, as he was familiarly called, has gone away one of the oldest and most respectable settlers of Rio Grande County. Just eight days before his death on May 2, near the Mexican Plaza, he fell from his wagon in trying to manage a run-away team and had two ribs broken. He was thought in a fair way to recover, when the end came unexpectedly, the result probably of internal lesions.
Mar. Antonio Nerio Montoya was born in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, or pure Spanish blood, on March 17, 1827, and was therefore a little over 63 years old when he died, Mary 22, 1890.
He came to Guadalupe, Conejos County, then Colorado Territory, in the year 1863, with some of the first settlers of Southern Colorado. The oldest settlement, in fact, established itself on the left bank of the Conejos River, at Guadalupe, as early as the year 1856, when the present site of the Conejos Court House was an Indian camp. Mr. Montoya lived there only five years, and in 1868 moved to the present Rio Grande County, where he took up his beautiful ranch on Pinos Creek and there resided the last 22 years of his life. He had but an ordinary literary education, but his religious an moral training had been excellent, in the midst of the blessings of a very happy family life. His mother, who is still living, 96 years old and half blind, was of the old type, and instilled into the minds of her 16 children the principles that make strong men and exemplary Christians. Hence Mr. Montoya, by his sober and industrious habits became one of the wealthiest ranchmen of this part of the State, and reserved in himself an unstained reputation of honesty and uprightness. He was all his life a faithful, practical Catholic, and even in trying circumstances never swerved from his faith. The late pioneer Bishop Machenhebeuf constantly cherished for him the greatest esteem and affection,k and never failed to use his cordial hospitality. God alone knows the many acts of kindness that he has shown to all the needy, and how many families of his countrymen owe him a still decent living. And as to his own family, he was indeed an exemplary husband and a most loving father, and as such leaves them a heritage more precious than gold, the remembrance of an irreproable life.
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San Juan Prospector, June 7, 1890
Editor Prospector:
With the death of Don Nerio, as he was familiarly called, has gone away one of the oldest and most respectable settlers of Rio Grande County. Just eight days before his death on May 2, near the Mexican Plaza, he fell from his wagon in trying to manage a run-away team and had two ribs broken. He was thought in a fair way to recover, when the end came unexpectedly, the result probably of internal lesions.
Mar. Antonio Nerio Montoya was born in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, or pure Spanish blood, on March 17, 1827, and was therefore a little over 63 years old when he died, Mary 22, 1890.
He came to Guadalupe, Conejos County, then Colorado Territory, in the year 1863, with some of the first settlers of Southern Colorado. The oldest settlement, in fact, established itself on the left bank of the Conejos River, at Guadalupe, as early as the year 1856, when the present site of the Conejos Court House was an Indian camp. Mr. Montoya lived there only five years, and in 1868 moved to the present Rio Grande County, where he took up his beautiful ranch on Pinos Creek and there resided the last 22 years of his life. He had but an ordinary literary education, but his religious an moral training had been excellent, in the midst of the blessings of a very happy family life. His mother, who is still living, 96 years old and half blind, was of the old type, and instilled into the minds of her 16 children the principles that make strong men and exemplary Christians. Hence Mr. Montoya, by his sober and industrious habits became one of the wealthiest ranchmen of this part of the State, and reserved in himself an unstained reputation of honesty and uprightness. He was all his life a faithful, practical Catholic, and even in trying circumstances never swerved from his faith. The late pioneer Bishop Machenhebeuf constantly cherished for him the greatest esteem and affection,k and never failed to use his cordial hospitality. God alone knows the many acts of kindness that he has shown to all the needy, and how many families of his countrymen owe him a still decent living. And as to his own family, he was indeed an exemplary husband and a most loving father, and as such leaves them a heritage more precious than gold, the remembrance of an irreproable life.
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