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
Sources (1)
- Eladia Medina, "Colombia, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1576-2018"
Spouse and Children
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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