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Surname: Espinosa Given Name: Rita Sex: F
Place of Birth: Date of Birth: Order:
Place of Death: Tubac Date of Death: 04/16/1820 Cause of Death:
Race or Tribe: Residence: Tucson; Tubac Title: Viuda de José María Sosa; Buried in the church at Tubac
Place of Service: Burial Place: Tubac-in the church, next to the holy water basin Translation: (Spanish - spiny, thorny)
Notes: "In the year of the Lord, 1820, on the 16th of April, Doña Rita Espinosa, widow of Don José María Sosa, the late alférez of Tucson, returned her soul to God. She was confessed by me at various times. She received the Sacred Viaticum and Extreme Unction on Palm Sunday and her body was buried on the seventeenth in the church, next to the holy water basin, for which truth I signed on the said day, month, and year as above. Fr. Narciso Gutiérrez, in charge of Tubac."

 
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Event ID: 3825 Relationship: Deceased Event Date: 04/17/1820 View Document A  
 
 
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