Elisa Figueredo y Vazquez and Juan Ramirez y Romagosa

[her parents]                                         [parents not known]

Elisa Figueredo y Vazquez was born in 1852.¹  On October 22, 1868, following the capture of Bayamo, a Te Deum ² was sung in the church El Santismo Salvador to give thanks for the victory, and Elisa was part of the choir which sang La Bayamesa at the conclusion of the service.³  She married Juan Ramirez y Romagosa,¹ with whom she had a son, whose name we don’t know.

Elisa and Juan Ramírez  were both captured by the Spanish at Santa Rosa in August 1870, and Elisa was deported, along with her mother and several of her sisters, almost immediately after her capture and spent a year in New York before moving, with them, to Key West, FL on December 11, 1871.   Juan Ramírez y Romagosa is called Lieutenant Colonel Rodríguez Romagoza by José Maceo Verdecia, in Bayamo.

#  Child of Elisa Figueredo and Juan Ramírez:

i               ??? Ramirez y Figueredo was born in 1870, during the time when the families were in hiding, following the burning of Bayamo.  In August 1870, the Spanish attacked the village of Santa Rosa and captured both Elisa Figueredo and Juan Ramírez, but, according to Juan Rueda, “a maid with a new born child, the son of Elisa, succeeded in escaping”.  Flora Mora wrote of “una criada con una sobrinita de meses, en brazos, hija de Elisa” [a maid with a niece of months, in arms, daughter of Elisa].  Elisa was deported from Cuba almost immediately after her capture, and there is no evidence to show that she was ever reunited with her child.

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¹  Source: De Cuba a Boyaca por la Libertad, page 4

²  Footnote: A hymn, traditionally sung in Roman Catholic churches, on occasions of public rejoicing.

³  Source: Biografia de Perucho Figueredo, page 92A