In 1985 I found the baptismal entry for John McKay's wife in the LDS archives. I had been searching for it precisely to determine the truth of her being Yaqui. The baptismal entry listed her as, much to my surprise, "Espanola" (not even "mestiza" much less "india"). But, the "story" of John McKay's Yaqui wife is better than the actual truth: Supposedly, upon John's arrival by boat from San Francisco to San Blas, on the gang plank leading to the pier, John's pants caught a nail and were ripped off of him, so he arrived on Mexican soil nude from the waist down. A Yaqui woman supposedly approached him and with the motion of her hands and fingers offered John to sew his pants. Supposedly he married this woman. This story was related to me repeatedly for 26 years, mostly by my uncle Raul Inzunza McKay who had heard the story from his mother, the daughter of Avila. When Raul was very sick with a stroke in 1985, I offered to research as much as I could to determine whether the story of our Yaqui ancestor was true or not. Raul lived long enough for me to show him the baptismal entry of Avila. We agreed the story was better than the reality...