Inés María de la Sierra Y Estrada^[1]

1854 - 1928  (74 years)

• Name	Inés María de la Sierra Y Estrada  [2, 3, 4]
  Born	1854	Mayagüez Puerto Rico   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Died	18 Jun 1928	Mayagüez Puerto Rico   [4]
  Person ID	P170	Turnier Family
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Manuel Fermín de la Sierra,   b. 7 Jul 1823, Santander, Spain ,   d. 1875, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico  (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	María del Carmen Estrada,   b. Nov 11, 1822, Curacao ,   d. 1876, Mayagüez Puerto Rico  (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1848	Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Mayagüez, PR
  Family ID	F54	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Luis Lassise,   b. Abt 1847, Mayagüez Puerto Rico ,   d. 6 Aug 1905, Cárcel, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA  (Age 58 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

  Ines María de la Sierra lived what was probably a priviledge existence. She was a very well educated woman, attending school and receiving a fine intellectual education. She probably studied in a school for young women that was opened in Mayagüez in the 1860's by Venezuelan women. This school tried to give an education comparable to those received by boys (I say this because my grandmother told me that she went to what could be considered a high school and the only institution of that kind that existed in Mayagüez at the time was this school). She lived in Calle San José, which later became Once de Agosto (Now is Ramos Antonini) in the what became the shoe store of one of the Vidal brothers (Almacenes Vidal rings a bell). The house, like most houses on the square served a double purpose: business and home life. She lived in the upstairs area. In the 1950's out of curiosity I asked the owner if he would take me up and he did! It was no longer a house, but a maze of rooms that stored merchandise. Still it must have been a very nice place to live. When she was eighteen her father died and shortly thereafter her mother. At this point her younger brother Nicolas was dying of TB and her youngest sister Luisa was about ten years old (Manuelita had died shortly after birth). Her mother's sisters had married powerful men in the community so she and her brother went to live with Antonio Annoni (tío Antonio) who at the time was one of the wealthiest men in town and had a son about her age. Luisa went to live with Jose Miguel de Olaguibel. She served as woman in charge because her aunt was a sickly woman and had great responsibilities as the wife of one of the town's most prominent citizen, She married late, probably in her early thirties to Luis Lassise. Her life with Luis was also one of comfort and prestige. He was a well to do businessman and he built a lovely house in San Vicente Street. Her only misfortune was the sudden death of her husband from horse fall. But she was wealthy when he died. A generous woman, she gave to the needy, helped her, also widowed, sister Luisa, and sent her only son to study medicine, in style, to the University of Maryland. She was absent minded, to the point that one day she was talking with a friend and stood up, forgetting that her youngest child, a baby still, was on her lap. But also, she was very cultured and raised her three children with a view of simplicity, service to the community and culture. My grandmother, the one that was dropped, spoke three languages and was a voracious reader of fine literary works and philosophy. She was also a big spender and had rather opinionated views. When she got into an argument with her niece Carmen Frau over her parents grave (who contained her husband's remains), she simply purchased another plot, exhumed her husband's remains and stopped talking to her niece. The family was not reconciled until the 1920's when Guillermo Mulet, Carmen's husband died and my great grandmother went to the funeral. She was so secured in her economic position that burned all the deeds the family had from the lands in Venezuela. God only knows what we lost. She died in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, the town that saw her birth and her life after the hurricane of San Felipe in 1928.

  
  

• Sources

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