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Posted July 26, 2024
I remember how surprised I was to learn that my grandmother Ana Cruz García’s first baby was Matilde, born on January 27, 1907. Sadly, Matilde died on September 23, 1908, just two months after the birth of her baby sister, Adela. (See death record below). It’s amazing to me that none of my aunts and uncles, or even my father, ever mentioned that the oldest child in their family was named Matilde. We were always told that Adela was the oldest. Did they not know about Matilde? It’s seems strange that Florencio and Ana would never have talked to their other children about the first baby that they lost. By then, though, Florencio had lost three (or possibly four) small children as well as his first wife. Maybe at some point you just stop talking about the pain.
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