We have seen from where Guillen de Pedraza's genealogy lays. On one side of the family are the Bethencourt's of France, the de las Casas family, the Ayala's, the Haro's all the way up to Pharmond, King of the Salien Franks (370-430). Now we continue the Pedraza family genealogy here with Guillen's son, Diego de Pedraza

Conquest of Nueva Espania

Diego was born in 1504 and was schooled at the University of Salmanca (one of only two in the world) in the art of Surgery. Among his early peers were Don Hernan Cortez, who would drop out after a year in search of adventure. These two would meet up again after Diego finished school as he took part in the conquest of Mexico and was a surgeon onboard Hernan Cortez's ship in 1529.

After the conquest, Diego became a fixture in Mexico City as the top surgeon and was knighted into Orden de la Real Chancilleria de Valladolid. He went on to establish a number of hospitals and his house/office is a museam in Mexico City today.

Due to the numerous wars and civil wars that ravaged Mexico until the early 19th century, records are scarce. We have managed to link, by family shield, Miguel Alejandro de Pedraza who was the Commander of Guanajuato. He married a woman by the name of Juana who gave birth to Juan de Pedraza, Commander of Salamanca (circa 1850) and he married Angela Dominguez. Angela Dominguez would give birth to five boys, Macario, Masimino, Alejandro, Delfino and, my grandfather, Roman de Pedraza.

To The United States

Roman was in a military school and was involuntarily swept up in the whirlwind that was Pancho Villa after he raided the school. Now a part of the army of Villa, Roman escaped his captive when Villa attacked a small United States city, Columbus, Arizona. Roman escaped in the chaos and made his way back to Arizona where he found work as a baker's assistant. After a year or so, he continued on to California seeking riches. He wound up joining the U.S. Army in 1918.

Richard would join the San Antonio Sheriffs Department and keeping to tradition also joined the United States Army and is currently a Sergeant First Class and is looking to get his Sergeant Major Stripes in the next year. He took part in the war in Bosnia and has and continues to serve the State of Texas as a member of the Army Reserves. Richard would marry Emserlinda Tellez in the early 1980's. They would have no children and were divorced after a few years. Richard then met and married Teresa Val Verde and they gave birth to Priscilla Pedrazine. Priscilla recently graduated from college and is currently working towards becoming a Registered Nurse.

Gregory joined the United States Marines after graduating high school. He would leave the service after a year with a shoulder injury. He would marry Teresita Castillo and the two would have two children, Gregory Jr and Gabrielle. Gregory Jr is currently a musician (guitar) and Gabrielle is in high school.

David, after graduating high school in 1983, joined the United States Army and was trained as a Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Warfare Specialist at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Upon graduating, he was shipped to the 25th Chemical Company in the 8th Infantry Division in the Rhineland Phalz region of Western Germany. There he took place in the draw down of the Cold War and participated in the supervision of the removal of Nuclear Weapons across Europe. He was also present at the end of the Cold War when the wall seperating East and West Germany came down.

In 1988, David reenlisted and changed jobs (MOS) to a Administrative Specialist with an emphasis as a SIDPERS Analyst. He was a member of the 1st graduating class of SIDPERS Clerks and was sent to the 4th Infantry Division where he served with the famed 1st Battalion 29th Field Artillery Division. He took place in a rotation at the National Training Center in California for Desert Warfare training (something that would come in useful in the future) and after only a year was shipped back overseas to Europe. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery of the 5th Battalion 3rd Air Defense Artillery where he worked in the S-1 as a SIDPERS Analyst.

In August of 1990, the Nation of Iraq invaded the sovereignty of the nation of Kuwait and invaded with 150,000 troops (vs 20,00 Kuwaiti troops) The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution in November 1990 allowing member states to use "all necessary means" to remove Iraq from Kuwait. Over the next few months, new equipment rolled into his unit and by the the Fall of 1990, David's unit was called to arms in the growing conflict in the middle East. The quick deployment unit (770 soldiers) were flown to King Khahlid Air Base in Saudi Arabia and were moved to the ports to await their equipment .