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The council recalled its mayor and the first official census families in an emotional ceremony on the occasion of its 175th anniversary (04/04/2011)

The municipality of San Javier honored its first mayors and families enrolled in the municipal census of 1836 was the year in which the municipality of San Javier to segregate the city of Murcia, in an emotional ceremony presided over by the municipal corporation was held on Friday April 1 in the hall of the municipality of San Javier.

Public recognition is part of the "stern but loving" with which in 2011 celebrated the anniversary as the mayor pointed out, Pepa García who emphasized the power of social cohesion of such events, which have never before been made .

After a laborious research by local historian José Ballester, are brought together to 4 living ex-mayors and councilors from 24 other descendants and the descendants of 12 families registered already appeared in the first official census 1836, and collected from the hands of the Mayor a scroll that proves it.

The former mayors José Hernández, Luis Rios, Francisco Javier Martinez, Teodoro Martinez picked up their awards in person, while the other mayors, like the first one was San Javier, José Meroño, were represented by their widows, children, grandchildren and to grandchildren.

The review of the milestones of each mayor during his term by the mayor of San Javier served to draw a local story that was aware of the social and economic development of the municipality where you can still track and find the descendants of the first census families despite historically have a receptive area of ​​foreign population.

In the local historical context of the night, also gave tribute, sharing their memories, a young soldier sanjaviereño, Francisco Villaescusa, which in 1922 received the Cross of Military Merit with white emblem.

The young man who died soon after the war in Africa, donated his own skin to help a fellow military service along with other soldiers suffered a terrible train accident in Onteniente.

Jose Ballester discovered the story of the soldier through the full council minutes of San Javier, which is recorded years after the greeting and recognition of the government team to his neighbor.

It was Ballesteros who also tracked family of the young soldier whose descendants gathered at the hands of the Mayor a new recognition of the City Council nearly 175 years later.

The ceremony attended by some 200 people ended with a cold appetizer was served in the lobby of City Hall.

Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier

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