Genaro Abjandro Yañez was born in 1896 in Mexico. He married Vincenta Orozco and had three children, Louis, Jhanata and Celsa. Vincenta returned to Mexico and Genaro remarried.
According to his son Jouis J Lianez, Genero and his wife Vincenta are survivors of the Mexican Revolution of 1916. They fled the country and moved to Michigan and eventually Ohio.
In one part of the family history as told by Antonia Lianez (Vargas) her husband Louis Lianez was actually born Louis Yañez. His name was changed upon entering school. That would explain why Genaro’s headstone reads “Lianez.”
Genaro in the foreground and John Vargas (father of Antonia Vargas who would marry Louis, Genaro’s son), working the fields in what is likely Wren Ohio
Above Genaro and his son Louis Lianez in the early 1940s.
Genaro passed in 1947 and is interred in Woodland Union Cemetery in Van Wert Ohio.