Maria Eladia Medina

Brief Life History of Maria Eladia

Maria Eladia Medina was born in 1848, in Túquerres, Nariño, Colombia. She married Isaac Mora in 1885, in Nariño, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1950, in her hometown, at the age of 102.

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Family Time Line

Isaac Mora
1850–1945
Maria Eladia Medina
1848–1950
Marriage: 1885
Cerbeleon Mora Medina
1863–1981
Carlota Mora
1880–
Daniel Mora Medina
1890–1975
Carlota Mora Medina
1892–1963

Sources (1)

  • Eladia Medina, "Colombia, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1576-2018"

World Events (4)

1899

Thousand Days' War. Around 120,000 people die in civil war between Liberals and Conservatives. Panama becomes an independent state.

1903

Panama seceded from Colombia with U.S. backing and allows U.S. control over the strip of land now known as the Panama Canal zone.

1922

The United States pay Colombia $25 million for the loss of Panama.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Ramon, Mario, Rafael. Portuguese Lidio, Ligia, Anatolio, Duarte, Joao.

Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid province, so called from Arabic madīna ‘city’.

Jewish (Sephardic): also an adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholic.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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