Estanislao Hernandez was the cook and housekeeper at a large Mexican ranch in the early 1900s when she married Dean Goff, the ranch’s American manager, who had been sent to Mexico by his father to avoid service in the Spanish-American War. Dean and Estanislao lived happily in Mexico until 1918, when they and their five children were forced to flee the country to escape death at the hands of Pancho Villa’s guerilla forces. The Goff family settled in Dean’s home town of Elgin, IL, where Estanislao was “not favorably received” by Dean’s family. Dean eventually got a job at the Pearsal Milk Company and Estanislao did needlework for a shirt factory, and later worked in a steel mill during World War II. This christening bonnet was used for all seven of her children when baptized in the Catholic Church. Six were baptized near Elgin Ranch in Necaxa, Pueblo, Mexico. One was baptized in Aurora, IL at St. Nicholas Catholic Church USA.