ROMERO, Venancia Margarita

1877 - 1912  (35 years)

• Name	ROMERO, Venancia Margarita
  Nickname	Margarita, Maggie
  Birth	1877	Santa Barbara County, California
  Gender	Female
  Census	07 Jun 1880	Montecito, Santa Barbara, California   [1]
  	With parents and siblings
  Death	25 Oct 1912	Oxnard, Ventura, California
  Burial	1925	Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California   [2]
  Person ID	I16243	1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	RODRIGUEZ ROMERO, Juan "Pedro" Loreto del Refugio,   b. 08 Sep 1844, Santa Barbara, Alta California d. 14 Nov 1916, Montecito, Santa Barbara, California (Age 72 years)
  Mother	SANCHEZ, Maria "Viviana",   b. 02 Dec 1853, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California d. 17 Jan 1936, Montecito, Santa Barbara, California (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F5230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1877 - Santa Barbara County, California Census - With parents and siblings - 07 Jun 1880 - Montecito, Santa Barbara, California Death - 25 Oct 1912 - Oxnard, Ventura, California Burial - 1925 - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S171] CENSUS 1880 - U.S. Federal, (ancestry.com), 07 Jun 1880, page 7/13. 1880 CENSUS - District 081, Montecito, Santa Barbara, California NAME - AGE - RELATIONSHIP - CIVIL CONDITION S/M/W - OCCUPATION Pedro Romero - 40 - _ - M - Laborer Bibiana Romero - 28 - Wife - M - Keeping House Filomena Romero - 8 - Daughter - S Francisco Romero - 6 - Son - S Cliodo B. Romero - 4 - Son - S Bonancia Romero - 2 - Daughter - S Alejandro Romero - 1 - Son - S [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://www.montecitojournal.net/archive/12/9/40/. DEATH & BURIAL Montecito Journal Archive » April 20, 2006 The Way it Was By Hattie Beresford THE FIRE DISTRICT?S SANCHEZ COMPOUND ... Mystery and Folklore The great mystery, however, concerns the cobbled grave in the center of the property. The sandstone grave marker reads: Margarita McGary - Died October 25, 1912 - Age 35 Years. Local lore says that she was a dance hall girl who met an early demise. Others claim she and her lover were murdered by her jealous husband. The lover's grave supposedly lies to the right, its white wooden cross long gone. A few years back, a few myth busters got together and did a little historical research. Turns out Margarita's maiden name was Romero and that the oft-married Viviana Sanchez was her mother. Vananiea Margarita Romero was born in 1877 to Pedro Loreto de Refugio Romero and Viviana Sanchez Romero. Margarita had been married to a man named Pratt with whom she had two sons, Albert and Tommy. She then married Ed McGary, a policeman in Oxnard. She died in Oxnard following a stroke of paralysis, which was possibly meningitis. Her remains were brought to Santa Barbara and the funeral was held at Our Lady of Sorrows, from whence, according to the Morning Press, she was supposed to be taken to Calvary Cemetery for burial. Calvary records, however, don't list her interment until 1925. So the mystery remains, who is buried in Margarita's grave? When her four pall-bearing brothers bore her coffin from the church and placed it in the funeral wagon, did they head east toward Spanish Town instead of west toward Calvary? Was she later exhumed and re-interred in 1925? Is there another grave next to hers as some old timers believe, and, if so, who is buried there?