When Maria Gandara was born about October 1844, in Socorro, El Paso, Texas, United States, her father, Concepcion Gandara, was 39 and her mother, Juana de Dios Sanchez, was 42. She married Ignacio de Bernardino Jurado on 12 June 1857, in Guadalupe, Chihuahua, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, El Paso, Texas, United States in 1900. She died about 1930, in Socorro, El Paso, Texas, United States, at the age of 86.