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Jose Eutimio Puente and Family

Updated Jun 26, 2025
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Jose Eutimio Puente and Family
The last and maybe only photo taken of the entire family just before the death of daughter Teresa, seated in front row. (4th from the left)..
People in photo include: Maria Puente, Florentina Puente, and Epimenio Puente
Date & Place: at Family Farm in Poth/Wilson Co., Texas USA
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Happy Sons and Daughters Day! This 1922 Puente family photo may have seen better days but it shows a couple blessed by *lots* of sons and daughters. Do you have both? :)
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my gr grandparents
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08/12/2020
Jackie Lingle that's your great grandparents?
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Cindy Sagen Frey no not that pic I was talking about my dads side the great grandparents had 9 children
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Jackie Lingle ok I was wondering 🤣
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08/11/2020
Their mother must of been exhausted
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08/11/2020
Or the oldest daughters - the "help" often fell to them. :)
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08/11/2020
But none of them actually look happy....
People generally didn't smile in formal portraits back then, not even wedding photos.
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Ree Young It took to long to take the picture, so by then you didn't smile.
Audrey Howe Actually, by the late 1800's, exposures took only a few seconds. The little Brownie camera was invented in 1900. I still have my folks' old Brownie camera from the 1920's.

According to the link, this photo was taken in 1922, not long before, sadly, one of the little girls in the front row died.
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Not quite sure “blessed” is the correct word here..😳
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Really? My Dad's grandmother had 12 pregnancies - 8 survived to adulthood. I think my grt grandmother would think she was blessed with each and every surviving child.
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No choices back then for women.. thank goodness we live in a different time..
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Susan Jacobsen
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AncientFaces my grandmother had ten pregnancies one was stillborn and two died in infancy and I am not so sure she looked on each pregnancy as a happy event.
Very common to have a lot of children at that time as so many did not survive illnesses. Poor mother. My partner's g grandparents had 13 but 4 died young.
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Kate van Dyck yes Kate very common there was no reliable contraception and all the churches frowned upon contraception anyway. No one in thSt time ever thought about the terminal exhaustion suffered by those poor eternally pregnant women. Many many of them suffered prolapse of the uterus which wasn’t repaired until after child bearing days were over. Nothing was allowed to interfere with keeping the Mrs pregnant and happy. Funny my grandmother and many other of her age group all had the same mantra which was “ IF WOMAN HAD THE FIRST BABY AND MAN HAD THE SECOND THERE WOULD BE NO THIRD.
I think your Grandmother was right!
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Kate van Dyck I am sure she was.
My dad was the eldest of 9 children and, at 14, left school to get a job to help the family. He was already 20 when his last sibling was born.

My mom was the second youngest in a family of 12. She married my dad when she was 16, and they lived with his family where my mom helped out with the housework, cooking, and her in-laws youngest children.

I might have had some brothers, but my mom had 5 mid-term miscarriages. My folks adopted a little girl, and then my mom got pregnant again and, this time, carried full term and had me.

I have two sons...the eldest is 10 years older than his brother, but I had a daughter inbetween the boys. Lost her to SIDS.
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Perfectly natural back then....and no birth control.
Pictures took so long to take back then...thats why they didnt smile...had to stay perfectly still for quite some time.
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They didnt have TV then .
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Before cable TV
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Yes 2 sons and 1 daughter 🤗
My grandparents married when he was 21 and she was 13 and a half. My oldest aunt was born when Granny was 14 yrs and 9 months old. My mother is #12 out of the 13 children, 10 boys and 3 girls. There was a set of twin boys (babies #10 & #11) next older than her. They were born more than 2 months early in Nov. 1948, at home. One only lived a few hours, but the other did fine. So out of 12 pregnancies, they raised 12 children. Five are still alve, my Mom and 4 brothers.
I asked Granny once why she had so many kids -- she said "I liked babies and I liked your Grandpa (wink, wink, blushing).
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The Puente family could have formed they’re own puente with all those kids.
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Lovely old photo 📷
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Ugh all those pregnancies
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My mother in law was 1 of 12 and my father in law 1 of 11.
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That's the kind of photo I love to restore! Tons of history and love!
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My grandfather told a story of a family in our village in Yorkshire, who had many children. " Twenty two, twice. One died, so they had another".
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They are blessed!
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Large families were common
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Beautiful family
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Mr Puente must have been a good provider. The children are all dressed well and looked well fed and cared for.
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08/13/2020
But not happy! Not a single smile
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My grandma had 17 kids
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My Grandmother was the twelfth of 13 siblings. All their names started with "E" ... She was born in 1906.
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My grandma had 10 kids. All born at home. All survived. She always said she was blessed
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Abdon Puente
Abdon Puente was born on July 30, 1900. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Abdon Puente.
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Francisco Puente
Francisco Puente was born on January 20, 1904. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Francisco Puente.
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Teodora S Puente
Teodora S Puente of San Antonio, Bexar County, TX was born on April 1, 1894, and died at age 95 years old in December 1989.
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Herminia Puente
Herminia Puente was born on November 11, 1907. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Herminia Puente.
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Anselmo Puente was born on April 2, 1896. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anselmo Puente.
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Dolores (Salazar) Puente
Dolores (Salazar) Puente was born on September 28, 1877. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dolores (Salazar) Puente.
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