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Description
Donor notes: Encarnacion Caceras Escobar, B. March 25, 1835, D. Jan. 12, 1927, Buried at Catholic Cemetery, Santa Clara, California, Bernal Plot. "Carceras" could also be spelled "Caseras" perhaps (several spellings). Chona is the -common- nickname of Encarnacion in Spanish. Encarnacion had haplotype A mt-DNA. She was Native American therefore on her mother's side. Encarnacion came to New Almaden as a young girl, her mother and sibling having died on the ship from Sonora Mexico on the way north. She was said to be a "medicine woman" who knew about herbs in Spanishtown at the New Almaden Mines.
Type
image
Format
Tin
Identifier
426780A8-15E8-4232-A630-645472470984 2004-7-9
Subject
Bernal family Women Healers New Almaden (Calif.) Tintypes Nineteenth century Indians of North America Hispanic Americans Escobar, Encarnacion Caceras
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