Born in Azores, Portugal, the son of Francisco and Ana DeTevis. Antonio immigrated to America, and may have traveled with a older brother named Pedro Jose DeTevis, who is believed to have arrived in New Orleans about 1830, before traveling to St. Louis and finally to Taos, according to several historical accounts. The first mention of Antonio is his Feb. 4, 1858 marriage to Maria Salome Trujillo, of Taos. The 1860 Census for Fernando de Taos shows the first mention of their son, Jose Cayetano, who was born earlier that year. Antonio was about 29 years old and worked as a day laborer. Antonio and Salome had a daughter in 1862; they named her Carolina DeTevis. Unfortunately, Maria Salome must have died during the 1860s because she is not listed in the 1870 Census with the family, and Antonio, now a farmer, re-married in 1878 with Felipa Arguello, with whom he had two more children, Juana and Maria Emilia. Antonio died sometime before 1888.
Born in Azores, Portugal, the son of Francisco and Ana DeTevis. Antonio immigrated to America, and may have traveled with a older brother named Pedro Jose DeTevis, who is believed to have arrived in New Orleans about 1830, before traveling to St. Louis and finally to Taos, according to several historical accounts. The first mention of Antonio is his Feb. 4, 1858 marriage to Maria Salome Trujillo, of Taos. The 1860 Census for Fernando de Taos shows the first mention of their son, Jose Cayetano, who was born earlier that year. Antonio was about 29 years old and worked as a day laborer. Antonio and Salome had a daughter in 1862; they named her Carolina DeTevis. Unfortunately, Maria Salome must have died during the 1860s because she is not listed in the 1870 Census with the family, and Antonio, now a farmer, re-married in 1878 with Felipa Arguello, with whom he had two more children, Juana and Maria Emilia. Antonio died sometime before 1888.
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