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Maria lives in Maia, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel Island, Azores
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Maria is baptized at Divino Esperito Santo Church in Maia. Her Godparents are Jose Vierra and Maria Espirito Santo
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Maria leaves the Azores with her parents and siblings
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Maria arrives with her family in Honolulu, HI to be processed by the Portuguese Consulate. Her family will then be sent to work on a sugar plantation.
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Maria's parents are contracted to work for the Kealia Sugar Plantation (note that the years are correct but the dates are estimates)
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Sometime around 1886 Maria moved to Kilauea with her parents. They worked on the Kilauea Sugar Plantation.
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Sometime around 1895 Maria's Mother died leaving her father, Jozimas de Braga, in her care.
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Maria is married to Theodoro Pacheco at St. Sylvester's Church in Kilauea.
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Maria and Theodoro live and work on the Kilauea Sugar Plantation
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Hawaiian Organic Act is passed. This established when immigrants to Hawaii can gain citizenship. Those born in Hawaii prior to annexation are automatically granted US citizenship, though proving it would become difficult in later years when Social Security becomes available.
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Saraphina dies after only 15 minutes of life.
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Maria's husband contracted leprosy around 1906. Instead of being deported to Molokai, the family was smuggled off of Kauai to Oakland, California.
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Joao is born as the ship enters San Francisco Bay.
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Maria and family live on E. 25th Street, first on one side of the street and then on other from 1907 to 1914.
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California grants women the right to vote in 1911.
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Maria is married to Anton Souza at St. Joseph's Church in Oakland, CA.
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The assassination plunges Europe into war.
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Maria's husband, Theodoro, dies from the effects of leprosy.
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Maria moves her family to Spreckels, CA to live near her brother, Jose de Braga.
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Maria's first grandchild, Theodore Souza, is born to her daughter, Maria. The joy is short lived as Theodore died 15 Jun 1915 of milk fever.
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Theodore Souza dies just short of 3 months of age of milk fever.
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Several of Maria's cousins contract the flu, some die from it.
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Jose fills out his draft card and is drafted soon after.
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Women earn the right to vote in the USA.
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The sale of alcohol in the USA is prohibited. Portuguese families on E. 25th Street make their own alcohol and burn tires to mask the smell.
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World War I ends. Jose Pacheco survives the war, but Maria's nephew, Theodore Pacheco of Hawaii, dies from the effects of gassing in France.
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Jose is married to Minnie Ventura, ca 1921.
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Maria's Father, Jozimas de Braga, dies.
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Theodoro marries Angie Margie in Oakland, CA. Angie dies 3 years later from complications of pregnancy.
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Theodore remarries after his wife's death to Madeline Pacheco, his cousin's daughter.
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Joao marries Anna Jackson at St. Anthony's Church in Oakland, CA.
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Sometime around 1930, Maria moved back to Oakland to live with her daughter, Maria (Pacheco) Souza, and her family. Maria is 54 and her health is declining.
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Maria is mysteriously registered to vote in 1937 despite the fact that she is not a US Citizen and is in the country illegally.
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Maria dies in Oakland, CA, at the age of 61.
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Maria is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Oakland, CA along side her husband.
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