| Notes: At daybreak on May 8 in the year of the Lord 1810, Pedro, a Papago Indian who lived in the village of San Lorenzo, was married to Ignacia Salazar, a Yuma, and was sixty years of age, returned his soul to God in union and comunion with Our Holy Mother Church. His wife said he stepped outside to urinate (salió a hacer aguas) and fell down and died shortly thereafter, giving no time for either temporal or spiritual succour. His body was not buried until sunset on the same day because it was necessary to chop down so much brush in this cemetery at Santa Magdalena. He had been sick for some three months, although able to walk. He made his confession to me during Holy week to fulfil his duty to the church. They say that one dies in the condition he was alway in, and he told people that he would die working. And so it was. For this truth I sign on the said day month and year as above. Father José Pérez |
