>>13128424Cesario Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927.[1] He was named for his paternal grandfather, Cesario Chavez, a Mexican who had crossed into Texas in 1898.[2] Cesario had established a successful wood haulage business near Yuma and in 1906 bought a farm in the Sonora Desert's North Gila Valley.[3] Cesario had brought his wife Dorotea and eight children with him from Mexico; the youngest, Librado, was Cesar's father.[2] Librado married Juana Estrada Chavez in the early 1920s.[4]
