User:Asiaticus/sandbox/Jesus Valenzuela (Five Joaquins)

Jesus Valenzuela (18?? - 1858), was a Sonoran fourty-niner, known to the State of California as one of the Five Joaquins under his gang nickname, Joaquin Ocomorenia. According to the Valenzuela family sources interveiwed by Frank F. Latta, Ocomorenia was a garbled form of Jesus' real nickname, Ocho Morena, that he aquired in childhood in Pueblo de Murrieta, Sonora.