Ignacia Archuleta

This is Ignacia Archuleta, my maternal grandmother. The picture was taken in 1900 between April and about June. She was the youngest daughter of Juan de Jesus Archuleta and Marianna Duran. She was born on the 31st of January 1876 in Santa Fe, New Mexico and died there on the 15th of October of 1971.

She was married to Roman Benavidez on the 2nd of October of 1895 in Pecos, New Mexico. Ignacia and Roman had 10 children, five of which lived to adulthood. She lived most of her adult life in Rowe, New Mexico and raised all of her children there. She was a very strong woman and was very well respected by those who knew her. She was a feminist way before the term came into being. She was one of the last Hispanic woman to keep her own last name after marriage. She was an Archuleta when she was born and she died an Archuleta.