father: Joaquim Francisco Cruz (pai)

mother: Francisca Muniz

b.: Sabará, MG, Brazil, 17th/May/1852.

bap.: Sabará, MG, Brazil, ±1852.

d.: Sabará, MG, Brazil, 1st/Oct/1894.

bur.: Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel [Capela de N. Sra. do Rosário], de Sabará, MG, Brazil.

m.: Sabará, MG, Brazil, 4th/Sep/1869.

m.w.: c.c. Amélia Luiza dos Santos (b. Sabará, MG, Brazil, 2nd/Jul/1856; d. Sabará, MG, Brazil, ±193?), daughter of Daniel Joaquim dos Santos, and of Anna Costa (Aninha).

education/formation: Possibly, he would have had the "First Letters" ["Primeiras Letras"].

profession/activities: He was a Goldsmith (Jeweler).

politics/public offices: He was one of the founder partners of the "Club Saldanha Marinho", of Sabará, MG, Brazil, with republican political orientation, although in the time of monarchy, together with his brother José de Calazans Cruz, Libério Magalhães, and the Dr. Alfredo Sepúlveda, club which later became to be called "Clube União Sabarense", and that published the newspaper The Wave [A Onda], that circulated about the year of 1906.

religion/brotherhoods: He was roman apostolic catholic.

residence: He resided in Sabará, MG, Brazil, at the # 83, Saint Peter Street [Rua São Pedro, 83], in the Caquende neighborhood.

children: (10): Theodomiro Cruz, Theonilha Cruz, Theodorico Cruz, Theodorina Cruz (Cilú), Theodoreto Cruz, Ormezinda Cruz (Zinha), Benjamim Cruz, Francisco Cruz (Chico), Clotilde Cruz, and Oralda Cruz.