Josefa was born in 1891 in Zaragoza, Spain. Her mother died in 1907, and her father remarried in 1909, making Josefa and her sister feel out of place. In 1910, Josefa and her sister decided to emigrate to America. They arrived by ship in June 1910 and witnessed some passengers commit suicide believing a comet would destroy Earth. From 1910 to 1977, Josefa married, had three children, and lived in Lanús, Argentina until dying at age 86 in 1979 from an illness.

1. My Ancestor Josefa Antunez

2. Cronology 1891 : Josefa is born in Zaragoza. End of 1907 : Josefa’s mother dies. July of 1909 : josefa’s father re-marries. Beggining of 1910 : Josefa and her sister decide to travel to América. June of 1910 : the ship arrives in América. Between 1910 and 1977 : Josefa builds up a family and finally dies, at age 86.

3. 1891 Josefa’s mother gives birth of her second child at age 26 in Zaragoza , Spain. Her family is complete with her older sister, Ana, her mother, Juana, and father, Roberto. They live in the same house that Ana had grown up and had been left to her after her parents died.

5. 1907 In august of that year Josefa’s mother Juana got hit in her chest by one of their horses and gets ill. Juana dies in December, after a long struggle and leaves in charge of the house her oldest daughter Ana, wich is 18.

6. 1909 Josefa’s father re marries with a woman who used to be friends with her mother. Ana and Josefa start to feel out of place and don’t get along with their stepmother because of the proximity she had had with Juana.

7. Beggining of 1910 Ana and Josefa plan to leave the country and start a new life abroad. After months of planning and thinking they decide to travel to América and live there.

8. June of 1910 After a long trip they get to America but with memories they will not forget: first the experience of being alone in an enormous ship with no one beside apart of each other, and second what happened one night while they were on deck, they saw almost a quarter of the ship jumping off deck commiting suicide because of the Haley Comet, claiming that they would be saved from the destruction of earth because the Comet would crush earth destroying it.

10. From 1910 to 1977 Josefa married with José Angulo, a brazilian she met a few years after she had got to América. Josefa and José had three children: two girls and a boy. The family lived in Lanús until she died 1979 as a result of an illness she had been suffering for a long time in her bowels.