Frontier peace officer. Capt. Baca served as company commander in the 1st NM Cavalry under Col. Kit Carson during the Civil War, where he participated in the Battle of Valverde. Following the war he was stationed at a number of frontier posts in New Mexico. As a member of the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, he sponsored the bill that created Lincoln County. At various times in his long association with Lincoln County, he served as a probate judge, county sheriff and county commissioner.∼THE FATHER OF LINCOLN COUNTY (My Great Great Grandfather)
Saturnino Baca was born in Cebolleta, Valencia County, New Mexico November 29, 1830, and attended a private school there. One of Lincoln County’s most loved citizens, he was the Father of the county. As a member of the Territorial Legislature in 1869 he sponsored a bill which created Lincoln County.
As a young man, in early Territorial days, Saturnino Baca was sent to California with a party of government surveyors assigned to survey a road through Arizona to California. His task was to count the miles traveled each day. Captain Baca was stationed at all the important posts in New Mexico, including Fort Stanton, Fort Wingate, Fort Marcy, and Fort Defiance in Arizona. After leaving the army he lived in Santa Fe, then moved to Placita del Rio Bonito as Lincoln was then called. Captain Baca lost his arm during the summer of 1889 when he received a bullet wound in his elbow which necessitated amputation. He was wounded in a dispute over cattle and sheep ranges. Someone fired at night into a tent in which he and another man were sleeping, apparently by someone who opposed Baca’s grazing his sheep on what was claimed to be cattle range.
After rounding out a long life filled with stirring events, he passed away at old Lincoln in 1924, at the age of 94
Saturnino Baca was born in Cebolleta, Valencia County, New Mexico November 29, 1830, and attended a private school there. One of Lincoln County’s most loved citizens, he was the Father of the county. As a member of the Territorial Legislature in 1869 he sponsored a bill which created Lincoln County.
As a young man, in early Territorial days, Saturnino Baca was sent to California with a party of government surveyors assigned to survey a road through Arizona to California. His task was to count the miles traveled each day. Captain Baca was stationed at all the important posts in New Mexico, including Fort Stanton, Fort Wingate, Fort Marcy, and Fort Defiance in Arizona. After leaving the army he lived in Santa Fe, then moved to Placita del Rio Bonito as Lincoln was then called. Captain Baca lost his arm during the summer of 1889 when he received a bullet wound in his elbow which necessitated amputation. He was wounded in a dispute over cattle and sheep ranges. Someone fired at night into a tent in which he and another man were sleeping, apparently by someone who opposed Baca’s grazing his sheep on what was claimed to be cattle range.
After rounding out a long life filled with stirring events, he passed away at old Lincoln in 1924, at the age of 94
Frontier peace officer. Capt. Baca served as company commander in the 1st NM Cavalry under Col. Kit Carson during the Civil War, where he participated in the Battle of Valverde. Following the war he was stationed at a number of frontier posts in New Mexico. As a member of the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, he sponsored the bill that created Lincoln County. At various times in his long association with Lincoln County, he served as a probate judge, county sheriff and county commissioner.∼THE FATHER OF LINCOLN COUNTY (My Great Great Grandfather)
Saturnino Baca was born in Cebolleta, Valencia County, New Mexico November 29, 1830, and attended a private school there. One of Lincoln County’s most loved citizens, he was the Father of the county. As a member of the Territorial Legislature in 1869 he sponsored a bill which created Lincoln County.
As a young man, in early Territorial days, Saturnino Baca was sent to California with a party of government surveyors assigned to survey a road through Arizona to California. His task was to count the miles traveled each day. Captain Baca was stationed at all the important posts in New Mexico, including Fort Stanton, Fort Wingate, Fort Marcy, and Fort Defiance in Arizona. After leaving the army he lived in Santa Fe, then moved to Placita del Rio Bonito as Lincoln was then called. Captain Baca lost his arm during the summer of 1889 when he received a bullet wound in his elbow which necessitated amputation. He was wounded in a dispute over cattle and sheep ranges. Someone fired at night into a tent in which he and another man were sleeping, apparently by someone who opposed Baca’s grazing his sheep on what was claimed to be cattle range.
After rounding out a long life filled with stirring events, he passed away at old Lincoln in 1924, at the age of 94
Saturnino Baca was born in Cebolleta, Valencia County, New Mexico November 29, 1830, and attended a private school there. One of Lincoln County’s most loved citizens, he was the Father of the county. As a member of the Territorial Legislature in 1869 he sponsored a bill which created Lincoln County.
As a young man, in early Territorial days, Saturnino Baca was sent to California with a party of government surveyors assigned to survey a road through Arizona to California. His task was to count the miles traveled each day. Captain Baca was stationed at all the important posts in New Mexico, including Fort Stanton, Fort Wingate, Fort Marcy, and Fort Defiance in Arizona. After leaving the army he lived in Santa Fe, then moved to Placita del Rio Bonito as Lincoln was then called. Captain Baca lost his arm during the summer of 1889 when he received a bullet wound in his elbow which necessitated amputation. He was wounded in a dispute over cattle and sheep ranges. Someone fired at night into a tent in which he and another man were sleeping, apparently by someone who opposed Baca’s grazing his sheep on what was claimed to be cattle range.
After rounding out a long life filled with stirring events, he passed away at old Lincoln in 1924, at the age of 94
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