When Susana Isaura de Medeiros was born on 6 October 1885, in Acari, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, her father, Coronel Manoel Maria do Nascimento Silva, was 46 and her mother, Maria Miquelina Francisca de Medeiros, was 37. She had at least 7 sons and 8 daughters with Antônio Etelvino de Medeiros. She died on 31 May 1970, in Cruzeta, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, at the age of 84, and was buried in Cruzeta, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.