Mariana Duran

Mariana was born circa 1835, probably in Tesuque, New Mexico to Jose Pablo Duran and Ignacia Lovato. She died sometime in the early 1920's in Rowe, New Mexico. She was my maternal great grandmother. This is a picture of her in the summer of 1900.

She married Juan de Jesus Archuleta on 10 September 1862 when she was about 27 years of age, but they had been together for over 10 years. By the time Juan De Jesus and Mariana married they had Jose Eulogio 9, Cleta 7, and Margarita 2. Acording to the marriage information they "legitimized" them at the time of the marriage. They would have Mauricio, Pablo and Ignacia after the marriage. Juan De Jesus and Maria Anna Duran had 3 kids that died in infancy. Susana, Perfiria and Juanna.

She was widowed sometime after 1876 and remarried to an individual named Miguel Martin. No information remains to indicate what happened to Miguel or when he died. But he was a shoemaker in Santa Fe,

Mariana Duran was burried in Las Ruedas after the velorio in Rowe, New Mexico in the 1920's. She was possably the last person buried there. My brother recalls a conversation with our mother, Mariana's grand daughter, about the death and burial of Mariana Duran. It must have been a long ride from Rowe to Las Ruedas. It was not a good road in the 60's when I last walked down to the Las Ruedas site. In the 1920's it could not have been much better.

Funny thing, but there is a descendant and namesake of Mariana alive and doing well in Minnesota in 2009.