Margarita Figuera

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: Unknown

Events:

1730-1740?  -  Venezuela  -  Not applicable  -  From a family of Venezuelan royalists she was probably born around the 1730s.
1810-1820?  -  Venezuela  -  Patriot  -  She adopted the independence cause when in her 80s. She was captured by Morales, publicly whipped and decapitated

Connections:

Women executed independence cause (Venezuela)

Biography:
From a Venezuelan royalist family, she adopted the independence cause when in her 80s. She was captured by Morales, publicly whipped and decapitated. (Knaster, 480.)

References:

Knaster, Meri (1977) Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times