for over 30 years as a physician's office, with Juana as a nurse. Her final days were spent with her daughter Serafina Israel in Coronado. She died on December 24, 1901. Juana is buried in Calvary Cemetery (now Pioneer Park) in Mission Hills, San Diego with a headstone that reads "JUANITA WRIGHTINGTON 1814–1901". References External links Thomas and Juana Wrightington biography (San Diego Historical Society), from Smythe's History of San Diego "The Machado-Silvas Family", The Journal of San Diego History 15:1 (Winter 1969) by Rosemary Masterson Senora Dona Juana Machado Alipaz de Ridington [Wrightington] or translated Times Gone By in Alta California: Recollections of Senora Dona Juana Machado Alipaz de Ridington [Wrightington] (1878). Translated by Raymond S. Brandes. Reprinted in The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, September 1959, pp. 195–241. 1850 Census, San Diego, California, p. 276A California pioneers 1797 births 1853 deaths American emigrants to Mexico Naturalized citizens of Mexican California People from San Diego People from Fall River, Massachusetts People of the Conquest of California