On this day, Maria Manuela Garcia is very ill in bed and orders that this will be made. She notes she was first married to Jose Segura for two months and a second marriage to husband Juan Diego Romero for 16 years and they had the following six children: Josefa, deceased; Maria Niceta; Maria Dolores; Bruno; Tomas; Maria Felicita, deceased. Further into the document she states her parents as, Bernardo Garcia and Maria Josefa Sandoval, who left her as part of an inheritance, a piece of land.
Maria Manuela signs this along with witnesses: Jose Romero, Cristobal Beltran and Jose Rafael Troncoso. Filed and recorded on April 11, 1866 in the County of Santa Fe.
Just a quick peek at the Santa Fe Marriages Book they are married on January 17, 1848, he is widowed of his second marriage to Refugio Martines and she is a widow of Jose Segura. In the will she makes mention that in the first marriage there were no children.
References: Santa Fe County Probate Book, pg.s 286-288; New Mexico Marriages, Santa Fe, 1728-1857, published by New Mexico Genealogical Society, pg. 231.
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