When Raimundo Nonato Fernandes was born in 1880, in Passagem Franca, Maranhão, Brazil, his father, Jose Fernandes Da Silva, was 20 and his mother, Maria Preta, was 15. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Antônia Alves Fernandes. He died in August 1969, in São Domingos do Maranhão, Maranhão, Brazil, at the age of 89.