I blame my Grandfather for my sickness......

[EJAIII]

Top row, third person from the left is Pancho Villa. My grandfather is standing to Pancho's left, with his arm around Poncho’s left side. My grandfather owned a mercantile store in Mexico, and supplied guns to Pancho and his men. At some point in time, he had to leave Mexico (not by choice) and settled in Crowley,Louisiana. One of my 4 uncles remembers my grandfather telling he and his brothers "You can never go to Mexico." Picture was taken around 1904.
The second row, the last guy on the right is visibly packing.

 

[slowhandlukem]

That is kewl as hell man.Do you mind if I use that picture and frame it..I want
to blow it up and put it behind my bar in the den.
Viva la ponchooooo.......

 

[Trey@IG]

thats pretty badass. makes me want to go on ancestry.com and see if anything interesting shows up

 

[Ironman26]

Great part of history....too kool !!!

 

[EJAIII]

That is kewl as hell man.Do you mind if I use that picture and frame it..I want
to blow it up and put it behind my bar in the den.
Viva la ponchooooo.......

You're welcome to print it and frame it if you wish. I enlarged one print at Walgreen's to give to a friend so he could hang it in his place.

 

[brfd557]

Great pic and cool story! Thanks for sharing

 

[brfd557]

pics

I would love to start a thread of old family pics like this, I find them very interesting! What you guys think

 

[Mjolnir]

Very, very nice!

 

[EJAIII]

Very, very nice!

I've always felt as though I was born in the wrong era.

 

[USMC-Deano]

That's really neat. I did Ancestry.com earlier this year on a free 14 day trial and found two old pics of my great-great grandfather. My daughter favors him a little bit. I found that to be really cool to see how the genes passed on so well. I want to eventually get a full subscription and go back as far as I can everywhere, but during the 14 days, I traced back to the 9th century. Really interesting stuff in all of our families, indeed.

Also, completely off topic to this thread, but just wanted to say thanks again for the ducks. Wife made duck and sausage gumbo tonight and it was very good. First time I've ever eaten duck, but we did enjoy it.

 

[EJAIII]

That's really neat. I did Ancestry.com earlier this year on a free 14 day trial and found two old pics of my great-great grandfather. My daughter favors him a little bit. I found that to be really cool to see how the genes passed on so well. I want to eventually get a full subscription and go back as far as I can everywhere, but during the 14 days, I traced back to the 9th century. Really interesting stuff in all of our families, indeed.

Also, completely off topic to this thread, but just wanted to say thanks again for the ducks. Wife made duck and sausage gumbo tonight and it was very good. First time I've ever eaten duck, but we did enjoy it.

I'm glad you and the family enjoyed the birds.

 

[my-rifle]

Wonderful bit of history. I admire your grandfather for having such courage. There's a saying that goes something like, "The past isn't dead. It's not even past." These men remind me a lot of the filibusters in New Orleans who fomented the Texas rebellion and who were largely responsible even if they weren't recognized for extending the United States to the Pacific Ocean.

Though it is not relevant to this thread, "Pancho And Lefty" still makes my hair stand up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsR0Y-sWk-E

 

[radney]

Great stuff right there - my aunt did the same kind of genealogy stuff for our family and discovered we had family members who rode with Francis Marion during the Revolution.

 

[Gator 45/70]

Nice picture....Say ? The guy nealing on the bottom left....Is that a jug of Jaeger he's holding.???

ccc...

 

[JBP55]

I'm glad you and the family enjoyed the birds.

I would like to thank you again for the ducks, I could not find the original thread to do so.

 

[I_FLY_LOW]

Neat bit of history!
Thanks for sharing!

 

[Golden-Eagle]

That picture might bring back the "handlebars". Cool story and picture.

 

[dantheman]

My late father in law told us that allegedly Pancho Villa had stolen a horse from his grandfather down in old Mexico .

 

[oleheat]

This a really interesting story. We know what became of Villa (and your grandfather)....Wouldn't it be interesting to know what eventually became of the others in the picture- as in how they met their eventual fates?

And yes- the guy at the bottom left is classic.

 

[EJAIII]

I would like to thank you again for the ducks, I could not find the original thread to do so.

You're quite welcome. I hope you and the others enjoy them. It was nice meeting you.