San Luis Obispo County Obituary

DE LA GUERRA

Submitted by Kathy Sedler, Sept. 2004

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Source:  History of San Luis Obispo County, California, Oakland, Calif., 
Thompson & West, 1883, pp 381-385; Pioneer Obituary
 
DE LA GUERRA � Ex-Sheriff De la Guerra, familiarly known as El �Chato,� died at 
his residence in this county, October 23, 1874, of diabetis.  His sickness had 
been lingering, resulting from a fall from a horse, which happened late in 1871. 
 This gentleman was the son of J. H. la Guerra y Carrillo, of the Alamos Rancho, 
Santa Barbara County, also lately deceased, and was a nephew of Don Pablo, the 
late District Judge.  He filled the office of Sheriff of this county from March, 
1866, to March, 1871.  He had lived in San Luis Obispo County since 1853; was 
married to the eldest daughter of the late Don Miguel Avila, and was always a 
prominent man among the native Californians.  He was a man of natural good 
heart, a sincere friend, and of frank and generous impulse.  His relatives and 
compatriots all mourned his loss, and Americans as well.  Those who were opposed 
to him in politics, as those who profited by his adherence to their party, felt 
that a friend had gone whom they would not willingly have lost.