I am currently researching one of my maternal great grandfathers and have hit a dead end and am hoping that someone may be able to shed some light on the matter.

He was licenciado Jesús Acuña. Born in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico on 22 March, 1888 and was killed at Acambaro, Michoacan, Mexico on 3 January, 1932.

He was a close associate of general and later president of Mexico Venustiano Carranza and held the post of Foreign Minister under Carranza during the time of the American expedition into Mexico under Gen. John J. Pershing.

While I have found him mentioned in dozens of period newspapers and books his family history is a complete blank. I have been unable to uncover even the names of his parents. The fact that he was an attorney and received a Jesuit education would lend to believe that he came from a family of some prominence in the Saltillo/Coahuila area of northern Mexico.

Has anyone come across information regarding him?

Here I go with an reply to myself.

I recently found the parental names of licenciado Jesús Acuña (Jr.) (my maternal great grandfather). He was the son of Jesús Acuña (Sr.) and Mariana Narro both of Saltillo. I have not found their birth or marriage death records yet although I do know that Jesús Acuña (Sr.) was still alive in 1918 when accompanied my great grandfather to Austin, Texas having fled there after an assasination attempt was made on Jesús (Jr.)

I also found the name of my great grandfather's wife - Enriqueta Rodriguez Morales, born on 16 September, 1890 in Saltillo. I also found the names of their nine children: Bernardo, Enrique, Roberto, Jesús(b.abt.1913), Servando(b. abt.1914), Ana Maria (b. 1916), Guillermo(b. 1918), Raymundo(b.1921) and Gertrudis (b.1928). It should also be noted that this said Enriqueta was not my great grandmother. He had only one daughter - my grandmother Carmen - from his laison with my great grandmother Margarita Ramirez.