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Fernández Family

Manuel Fernández Rubido

Born in Galicia, went to Cuba very young and made a fortune in Pinar del Río, they called him "Buey de oro" or Golden Ox and was a loyal Spaniard.

Owned the land at the right of the very entrance of the city of Pinar del Río, from the Guamá River and called his farm "Nuestra Señora del Carmen" upon which he built a huge house, where he lived and that later was converted into a school. The front of the farm next to the highway was eventually parcelled into the "Reparto Villamil" in which there were streets named after all of us, i.e. Pepe, Emilito, Elena, Humbertico, etc.

He married Nicolasa Abreu Avila, with whom he had four daughters.

Nicolasa Abreu Avila

Nicolasa Abreu Avila "Colasa", is believed to have been born in San Luis or in Peñas Blancas, province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba.

She married first Simón Pérez, with whom she had three children:

Nicolás Pérez Abreu

Nicolás Pérez Abreu never married or had children, was crazy and used to stand at the bridge over the Guamá River at the entrance of the city, and yell "Viva Cuba Libre" at the time when Cuba was a Spanish colony. They would arrest him, but since they knew he was crazy and his step-father Manuel Fernández Rubido was a prominent Spaniard, they would soon release him.

Antoñica "Toña" Pérez Abreu

Antoñica "Toña" Pérez Abreu never married or had issue; she was kind of crazy or perhaps a little retarded. There is an anecdote about her that says she had a boyfriend who tied his horse to the hitch post in front of their house and the horse produced some droppings, which irritated Manuel Fernández Rubido who told him off, told him to leave; the story says that Toña was livid and that she never spoke after that. She died 23 June 1944.

Nicolasa Abreu had four children in her second marriage with Manuel Fernández Rubido:

Manuel Fernández Rubido died at Pinar del Río Saturday 3 July 1915.

Nicolasa Abreu Ávila died Sunday 9 Abril 1916.

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