Luis Lassise^[1]

Abt 1847 - 1905  (58 years)

• Name	Luis Lassise  [2, 3]
  Born	Abt 1847	Mayagüez Puerto Rico   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Aug 1905	Cárcel, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA   [3]
  Person ID	P171	Turnier Family
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Luis Lassise,   b. Unknown, Louisiana, USA ,   d. Abt 1895, Mayagüez Puero Rico
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Francisca Lizana,   b. Unknown, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ,   d. Unknown, Mayagüez Puero Rico
  Relationship	natural
  Married	Unknown	Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (probably)
  Family ID	F48	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Inés María de la Sierra Y Estrada,   b. 1854, Mayagüez Puerto Rico ,   d. 18 Jun 1928, Mayagüez Puerto Rico  (Age 74 years)
  Married	1884	Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Spain
  Children	1. Luis Nicolas Lassese de la Síerra,   b. 1887, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico ,   d. 1 Nov 1942, Mayagüez Puerto Rico  (Age 55 years)  [natural]   2. Inés Luisa Lassise,   b. 23 Dec 1889, Mayagüez Puerto Rico ,   d. 7 Mar 1944, Mayagüez Puerto Rico  (Age 54 years)  [natural]   3. María Antonieta Lassise,   b. 15 Jun 1892, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico ,   d. 22 Oct 1978, Mayagüez Puerto Rico  (Age 86 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2020
  Family ID	F46	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Luis Lassies was left an orphan at the age of 14. He supported himself, an elderly aunt (Amelie) and his younger brother Alfredo by giving French lessons. Eventually, he opened a store with a member of the Filippi family, who absconded with the funds and returned to Germany, Later on he opened another store. It was located in front of the main square in Mayagüez. The warehouse of this store was in the street right behind, that later became Gonzalez Padín. He owned both buildings and there were still there the last time I went to the central part of the town in 1993. It was in the building that housed his ware house that the family spent the night when the coming of the American troops was imminent. He was pro-American and was one of the founders in Mayagüez of the Republican Party. He served as a member of one of the earliest school boards of the town. Luis Lassise was the secretary and his youngest daughter Maria Antonieta used to serve as his scribe and copy over, in a very neat and readable hand writing the copies of the minutes. An interesting thing about Luis was the fact that he knew a variety of languages that allowed him to shop for his goods in Europe himself, thus avoiding the middle man. He used to make regular trips to France and Spain (I believe England too) to supply his store. He died in 1911 as a result of a fall from a horse. He had send his regular horse to be shoed and borrowed a horse from the blacksmith to do some errands in the section of Mayagüez, known as "La Playa." He fell and hit his head against the trolley rails in that used to go up and down Calle Mendez Vigo. The exact location was in front of the house of the Falbe family, in whose house he died.

  
  

• Sources

  [S-2041842354] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=18185406&pid=171 [S1508299303] U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S-920185048] Puerto Rico, Civil Registrations, 1885-2001, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).