This picture (click on it to see a bigger view) was taken sometime in the summer of 1900. On the left is my maternal grand mother Ignacia Archuleta, her mother, Marianna Duran and my grandfather, Roman Benavidez. On Marianna's lap is her grandson, and my uncle, Jose Benavidez. The proud parents taking a three generation picture.
This is the only picture of Marianna that I know of. She was about 66 years old when the picture was taken. Marianna was born circa 1834 in Tesuque, New Mexico and she died circa 1921 in Rowe, New Mexico at the age of 96. Her parents were Jose Pablo Duran and Ygnacia Francisca Lovato.
Ignacia Archuleta was born January 31, 1876, the last child born to Juan de Jesus Archuleta and Marianna Durna in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She died there on the 15 of October of 1971 at the age of 95 plus years. In this picture she would have been 24 years old.
Roman Benavidez was born the 24th of February in 1874 in El Gusano (South San Isidro), San Miguel County, New Mexico. He was the fourth child of Juan Andres Benavidez and Maria Espiririona Garcia. He died on the 4th of January in 1962 in Rowe New Mexico at the age of 87.
Jose, the child of Ignacia and Roman was born the 18th of March, 1900 and died in Santa Fe in March of 1986 at the age of 86.
All are burried in the cemetery at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Rowe, New Mexico.
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