Lara,
I think we are probably related , my grandmother had cousins named Emma and Louisa, a lot of the names a very familiar , even the part about a Carreon having been the mayor of Columbus fits. I will be glad to share any info I have .

Thanks, Victor

In the Family History Center search the Microfiche in the FHLC under Mexico the country. It is divided into three parts.
1. Where to locate the town
2. Everything in general with the state - alpha order
example - Archives, Census, Military ...on and on
3. The towns in Alphbetical order
No Matter where you search throughout the world the system is the same.
The FHLC is the same search on the computer at the Family History Center but condenced.
You can also use the programs - International Genealogical Index to make surname searches at the Family History Center. You can use at home Familysearch.org online - LDS.
I prefer the IGI at the Family History Center because it offers more search example-Birth, Marriage, Parent surname search.
Good Luck

Carreon in Book
Spanish American Surnames in the Southwestern United States: A Dictionary
Carrion - one who came from Carrion(brushwood, town), the name serveral places in Spain. Founder in Asturias and Santander. Name of Villages near Palencia, Cuidad Real, and Sevill. Of unknow Etymology.
Carreon - Variant of the famous Castilian surname Carrion. Descendants of the knight Alonso Carreno who distinguished himself in the reconquest of the village of Carrion de los Condes, where he established the ancestral mansion. Don Enrique Carrion Vecin rehabilitated in 1929, the title of Flanders of Marqui of Melin granted in 1655, with an elaborate family shield.
Carreon is the name of a village in San Felipe, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Carreon is also a variant of the Basque name Carrion (see) from "arro"-- Brushwood--and the suffix of abundance "on" and the prothetic C, documented in Segura, Guipuzcoe in 1374.
This is what I found on the surname.
Good Luck

I was wondering how I would be able to purchase any of your books?? Especially the Census book of Chihuahua. I have family from there that I would like to know more about. Also have Carrion relatives from Arizona, but I'm not sure if they came from Chihuahua also!! I just started my research last year. Please reply!
Thanks Miranda

We are doing some research for one of my daughters classes on genealogy and found that my grandfathers father was Jesus Carreon apparantly the Mayor of Columbus New Mexico. We have been trying to find more info on the family and have had no luck. If you have anymore info could you please let us know. Thanks

Alicia Stadler

Alicia,
I wish I could help you.

I hope you get the info you need and if you do I hope to see it here. Maybe I (my husband's line) can connect to your line.

In my husband's Carreon line he had great grandparents where the two were surnamed Carreon, which could be French. This great-grandfather was said to be lost through the Indians who took him. His son, my husband's grandfather, was taken by Pancho Villa with the Dorados, and never heard from again.

Please let me know if you run into the surnames of Sigala and Legaretta during your Carreon research-both of which could also be French.

thanks,
martie