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May 14, 2020 · Santa María Suamca was a cabecera with visitas at San Lázaro and San Luis Bacoancos. The Santa Cruz River flowed past the mission and it was approximately thirty miles southeast of Guevavi near the town of Lochiel. Father Ignacio Xavier Keller was assigned to this mission in 1732.
Returning home from that expedition on May 9, 1740, he evidently rode a little too far in front of his soldiers and was ambushed and killed by Apaches somewhere between Santa María Suamca and the ranch that would become the Terrenate Presidio.
The terrified Spanish families of the Upper Santa Cruz Valley fled to safety at Terrenate presidio. Meanwhile O'odham residents of Guevavi, Tubac, and Tumacácori who did not join the rebellion took refuge in the Santa Rita Mountains or at Tres Alamos on the San Pedro River.
The location changed and it became known as Santa María Suamca (spellings vary) or Santa María Bugota. Sometimes an independent mission, sometimes a visita of Cocóspera. It had visitas at San Lázaro and San Luis Bacoancos.
Jun 30, 2024 · Returning home from that expedition on May 9, 1740, he evidently rode a little too far in front of his soldiers and was ambushed and killed by Apaches somewhere between Santa María Suamca and the ranch that would become the Terrenate Presidio.
Jun 19, 2020 · She was the daughter of the most famous and successful cavalry commander of the Janos Presidio in northern Chihuahua. She was also married to the most famous and successful cavalry captain to command the Presidio of Fronteras, located some twenty miles south of Douglas, Arizona.
Oct 20, 2001 · The old presidio of Terrenate was located at or near the abandoned mission Santa Maria de Suamca in the early part of the 19th century, and was known as Santa Cruz. (Bancroft, Ariz. and N. Mex., 386) See Bancroft, op. cit., 407, for origin of Robinson's statement that the golden era of Pimeria Alta history extended from about 1790 to ...
