Alcario Morales

Abt 1849 - 1941  (92 years)

• Name	Alcario Morales
  Birth	Abt Mar-Jun 1849	Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Aug 1941	Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
  Burial	10 Aug 1941	San Xavier Mission Cemetery, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
  Person ID	I129486	Ingram-Related
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Lorenzo Florencio Morales,   b. Abt 1825, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Juana Ramona Siqueiros,   b. Abt 1825, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F50693	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Benita Armenta,   b. Abt 1887, Of Arizona d. 1921, Pima County, Arizona (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	17 Feb 1915	Santa Cruz County, Arizona
  Children	1. Alcario Morales,   b. Abt 1916, Arizona d. Yes, date unknown   2. Jose Morales,   b. Abt 1918, Arizona d. Yes, date unknown   3. Florencio Lorenzo Morales
  Family ID	F50692	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Rafaela Munguia,   b. Apr 1870-Apr 1872, Mexico d. Abt 1915, Of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	1 Apr 1892	Pima County, Arizona
  Children	1. Genevire Enovera Morales,   b. Jul 1893, Arizona d. Yes, date unknown   2. Herminia Morales,   b. Mar 1895, Arizona or Nogales, Sonora, Mexico d. Yes, date unknown   3. Josepha Morales,   b. 13 Jul 1897, Arizona d. 14 Jun 1914, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (Age 16 years)   4. Alcario Morales,   b. Dec 1898, Arizona d. Yes, date unknown   5. Estephen Morales,   b. 1901, Arizona d. Yes, date unknown   6. Maria Morales,   b. 15 Aug 1903, Arizona d. 25 Mar 1977, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calfornia (Age 73 years)   7. Rafael A. Morales,   b. 3 Jul 1907, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona d. Mar 1984, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (Age 76 years)   8. Chonita Morales,   b. 1909, Arizona d. Yes, date unknown   9. Ramona Morales,   b. Abt 1911, Arizona d. 25 May 1930, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (Age 19 years)   10. Ramon Morales,   b. Abt 1914, Arizona d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F48569	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Immigrated 1892 per 1910 census.  Was living in Santa Cruz County, Arizona at this time. Madera Canyon was originally called White House Canyon after the white washed adobe structure said to have been built by a sheep man named Walden in the late 1870s or early 1880s.  By 1882, the White House was being used by Tucson merchant Theodore Wellish as a vacation retreat. Wellish brought his family to the White House to escape the summer heat in the city.  It is thought that Wellish may have been the first to Whitewash the two-room structure and cause the canyon to become known as White House Canyon.  Atondo Paz, and then his brother Rufino Paz, lived in the White House around the turn of the century.  About 1909, the house had been expanded to three rooms and was occupied by Alcario Morales and his family.  Alcario was a Mayo Indian from Sonora.  Mr. Morales kept burros, mules and horses.  He also made and sold cheese.  There was an orchard near by from which the family sold fruit and small trees. Mrs. Morales and their infant son died in 1921. The White House was abandoned in 1940 upon the death of Alcario Morales at the age of 90.  The remains of an adobe wall and a historic marker identify the location where the White House stood.  The wall and marker are located just off the surfaced trail near Proctor Road.  It is not known when the name of the canyon was changed to Madera Canyon.  The road leading to the canyon was, and still is, called White House Canyon Road.