| Avelino Martinez | |
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| Birth: | c.1824? Mexico |
| Death: | 7 August 1936 Kern County, California, USA |
| Age: | c.112 years, 0+ days? |
| Country: |  MEX USA
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| Longevity claimant | |
Avelino Martinez (c.1824? – 7 August 1936) was a Mexican-born American Supercentenarian claimant who died in California at the claimed age of 112. He came up to America from Sonora, Mexico, with his father when California was still under Spanish rule. He was with Joaquin Murietta’s and the Vasquez bands, whose forays brought apprehensive shivers to many a traveler. He always maintained, however, that he took no part in their many plunderings but was only employed by them as a horse herder. In early years he was with Lopez on the Tejon Rancho and had been with the Hills, Cuddebacks and Cummings at various times. Of late he had been on the Cummings ranch in Cummings valley.
Born of Mexican, Indian and Chinese descent, he came to California at age 13 with a group of drovers from Sonora, Mexico, searching for his father. He worked as a horse groom for one of legendary outlaw Joaquin Murrieta's four horse gangs. After Murrieta and his gangs were captured and slaughtered in 1853, Martinez worked until 1920 at Rancho EI Tejon. He then worked for E.J. "Bud" Cummings at the Cummings Ranch in Tehachapi until his death in Kern County, California, USA on 7 August 1936, at a reported age of 112, the last known survivor of the Murrieta group. He had his own mural in October 2006 commemorating the history of the Tehachapi area.
References[]
- Avelino Martinez Find a Grave (Unreliable source)