GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-62

St. Francis de Paula Church
303 Encino Street
Tularosa, NM 88352

Phone: 505-585-2793

 

History: St. Francis de Paula Church, Tularosa, Otero County, New Mexico, has been a parish with mixed Native (e.g. Apache, Mestizos) and non-Native American ancestry in the Diocese of Las Cruces (Archives: Las Cruces, New Mexico). Tucson diocesan priests preceded Las Cruces diocesan priests at St. Francis and attended to the following Apache Indian stations in New Mexico:

1892-1914 (transferred to Franciscans. St. John the Baptist Province. Archives: Cincinnati, Ohio)	Mescalero Reservation station (became a mission)
1900s-1916	Mescalero Government Indian School, Mescalero Reservation

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: ca. 1900-present, bulk ca. 1900-1916 

Volume: Several entries among several volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Francis de Paula Church, the Mescalero Reservation station, and students at the Mescalero School.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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