Showing posts with label Abel Barrios. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abel Barrios. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Don Sixto Barrios (Part II)

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As per the previous post, this is the bottom portion of Don Sixto Barrios' page in the Miguel Angel Garcia's Diccionario. The Spanish transcription:

Senor Redactor de "El Faro Salvadoreno",

Ruego a Ud. se sirva dar lugar en las columnas de su periodico a las siguientias lineas que dirijo.

Al Br. senor don Abel Barrios, a consecuencia de la tragica muerte de su caro padre el senor don Sixto Barrios.

En sentimiento es el unico elemento
moral capaz de aniquilar al hombre.

El justo y acerbo dolor que un fatal acontecimiento engendra hoy en mi espiritu, hace que por primera vez haga escuchar al publico la debil voz que en medio del dolor alcamzo a pronunciar; omitir esta expresion que un sentimiento de mi alma me impele a dirigir, seria violentar [unreadable] justa y sensible inclinacion de mi consternado corazon.

Un suceso cuyas circuntancias an ignoro, privo la noche del 10 del que numeramos, a la patria de un honrado e interesante ciudadano; a la agricultura salvadorena de un valioso y excelente productor, que colocado por sus propios esfuerzos al nivel de los grandes empresarios del pais, era ya una columna que sostenia el comercio de la Republica; a una esposa de tierno y carinosa esposa; a un hijo de un padre que no era para el, sino un conjunto de halagos amorosos; desaparecio en fin la fatal noche en que el que fue don Sixto Barrios exhalo su ultimo suspiro, un amigo de un amigo de un sin numero de personas que hoy se miran precisadas a apurar la amarga copa del dolor.

Y tu querido Abel amigo mio, que consuelo pudieras recibir del que os ayuda tambien a padecer? nimguno.... Pues yo cual tu, tambien lo necesito; pero recuerda amigo, que "en el hombre hay algo mas que barro" y que ese algo no esta sujeto al poder de la materia; y al permitirme que yo pueda apreciar, cuanto tenia de grande, de noble y generosa el alma de vuestro querido padre podre decir con certeza; que ella goza de mejor vida en la mansion que a los justos da el Senor.

Sea esta una debil prueba el sufimiento con que os ayuda a llorar vuesto inolvidable amigo.

(1) El Faro Salvadoreno No. 248 de 23 de agosto de 1869.

The English Transcription:

Mr. Editor of "El Faro Salvadoreno" [the Salvadorean Light, a newspaper],

I request that you use this in your opinion columns of your newspaper.


To Mr. Abel Barrios, as a result of the tragic death of his beloved father, Mr. Sixto Barrios,

Sentiment is the only moral element
capable of annihilating a man

The fatal event generates a just and scathing pain in my spirit today, causing me for the first time to make the public listen to my weak voice the pain causes; to ignore this expression of my soul would cause me to do serious violence to this just and sensible incliniation of my heart's consternation.

An event on the 10th, whose circumstances I won't go into, deprived our Country [El Salvador] of an honest and interesting citizen; [deprived] the Salvadorean agricultural community of a valuable and excellent producer, who through his efforts was one of the great industrialists of the country, and a column which supported the commerce of the Republic; [deprived] a wife of a tender and loving husband; [deprived] a son of a father who was unequalled except for a set of loving flatteries; vanished for good that fatal night when Don Sixto Barrios breathed his last, a friend of friends without number, [friends] who today drink from the bitter glass of pain.



And you, my dear friend Abel, are you consoled by that which would also make you suffer [referring, I believe, to kind words about his father]? No... I, as your friend, also need it [to be consoled]. I urge you to remember that "man is but made of clay" and that we are all subject to this matter, and when time permits me to appreciate, to say with certainty, that the great, generous and noble soul of your father enjoys a better life in the house of one who gives justice to him.



May this weak attempt be sufficient in helping alleviate your sorrows, my friend.



(1) Published in El Faro Salvadorena, #248 on Aug. 23rd, 1869

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Don Sixto Barrios (Part III)

While the page from Miguel Angel Garcia's Diccionario does not provide a direct link to Don Sixto Barrios to Dr. Sixto Barrios (my great-grandfather), there are indirect clues.
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First, Don Sixto was murdered at his hacienda, Managua, the Sesori district of San Miguel, El Salvador in 1869. Dr. Sixto Barrios was born three years later on the same estate.
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Second, the flowery eulogy to Don Sixto was written to his son, Abel, who also lived at the above-mentioned hacienda. Abel Barrios was named as the father of Dr. Sixto Barrios in his write-up.
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Given that there was probably not two Abel Barrios of similar age living at the hacienda at the time, and that Dr. Sixto Barrios was probably named for Don Sixto, I am currently working on the assumption that Don Sixto was Dr. Sixto Barrios' grandfather. I will continue to try to prove this connection, and will post any findings when I get them.
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Also, to stop any confusion between the two Sixto Barrios, I will list their birth year next to their name. Hence, Don Sixto Barrios (1822) is grandfather to Dr. Sixto Barrios (1872).

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Barrios Doctor Sixto

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The above is a page from the Diccionario Historic=Enciclopedico de la Republica de El Salvador, by Miguel Angel Garcia, 1946 about my great-grandfather, Sixto Barrios. I'll type the Spanish transcription first, then my best English translation:

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BARRIOS DOCTOR SIXTO

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Nacio el ano de 1872 en la Hacienda de Managuare jurisdiccion de Sesori en el departamento de San Miguel. Tuvo por padres don Abel Barrios y dona Teresa Alvarenga. Hizo sus estudios primarios y secundarios en el Liceo Salvadoreno e Instituto Nacional. Obtuvo el titulo de doctor en Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Sociales en la Universidad Nacional el ano de 1899. Ha ocupado varios e importantes puestos publicos en la administracion de Justicia, come Juez de la. Instancia de San Salvador, Santa Ana y Santa Tecla, Magistrado de la Camara de Occidente y de la Suprema Corte de justicia, Registrador de la Propiedad Raiz. Secretario de la Universidad Nacional y Profesor de varias asignaturas de Derecho. El ano de 1921 electo Diputado a la Constituyente Federal que se reunio en Tegucigalpa.

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DR. SIXTO BARRIOS

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He was born in the year 1872 on the Managuare Ranch, Sesori, San Miguel. His parents were Don Abel Barrios and Dona Teresa Alvarenga. He had his primary and secondary education in the Liceo Salvadoreno and Instituto Nacional. He obtained his doctorate in Jurisprudence and Social Science from the Universidad Nacional in the year 1899. He has occupied several important public positions in the administration of Justice, like Judge of the Courts of San Salvador, Santa Ana and Santa Tecla, Magistrate of the Chamber of the West and of the Supreme Court of Justice, Registrar of Properties. He was also Secretary of the National University and a professor of various subjects of Law. In 1921, he was elected a Deputy of the Federal Constituency that gathered in Tegucigalpa.

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Source: Diccionario historico-enciclopedico de la Republic de El Salvador, Vol. 7

Garcia, Miguel Angel, 1862 or 3-1955

San Salvador, tipografia "La Luz", 1927-

F1483.G21 v7, Green Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Barrios Lineage by Grandma Rosie

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The above note is actually a family tree written by my late grandmother, Rosa Barrio. I've transcribed from the top with my additions in brackets:
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Cerbulo Araujo (Father)
[of] Encarnacion Araujo
[who married] Abel Barrios
[and they had]
Geraldo [Barrios, president of El Salvador, and]
Sixto Barrios (assinated (sic))
Abel Barrios
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[Abel Barrios, son of Abel & Encarnacion, married]
Teresa Albarenja
[and they had]
Sixto
Gustavo
Merced
Teresa
Mina
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Sixto Barrios [son of Abel and Teresa, married]
Inez Carrillo [previously listed as Ines Monterosa]
[and they were the parents of ]
Rosa
[along with other children]
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Rosa Barrios [married]
Jorge Villalba
[and they were the parents of]
Mimi
[along with other children]
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Mimi Villalba
[Mother of] Gina and Didi
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My Family Tree
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