Isabel Meadows (July 7, 1846 – 1939) was the last fluent speaker of the Rumsen Ohlone language once common on the Central Coast of California. Her father James Meadows was born in Norfolk, England, in 1817. He was serving aboard a whaler in 1837 when he deserted the ship in Monterey. He married Maria Loretta Onesimo, a Native American, one of the last Rumsen Ohlone. Meadows's great-grandmother Lupecina Francesa Unegte had been baptized at the Mission San Carlos Borromeo in 1792 when about 800 Native Americans lived there. She died in 1872 at age 100.
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7 July 1846
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Died |
1939 (aged 92)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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