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Eulalia Perez de Guillen Marine , better known in Spanish orthography as Eulalia Prez de Guilln Marin, was a Californio who was mayordoma of Missin San Gabriel Arcngel and grantee of Rancho del Rincn de San Pascual in the San Rafael Hills, in presentday Los Angeles County, California. She claimed to have been born in 1766, if so making her 112 years old at the time of her death in 1878, but her case has not been verified or fully proven.

Eulalia Prez was born in Loreto, the capital on the Baja California Peninsula of the Las Californias Province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , to Diego Prez of Salamanca, Spain and Antonia Rosalia Cota. Macedonio Gonzalez, one of Eulalias nephews, knew Antonia Cota as Lucia Valenzuela according to Eulalias English born soninlaw and author Michael C. White, aka Miguel Blanco. Diego Prez was a ship captain, thought to come from Salamancafamily members have been unable to trace records of his commission through the Archivo General de Indias or in Loreto, which has been ravaged by hurricanes over the centuries. Her siblings were Teresa, Petra, Juana, Josefa, Bernardo, and Len.

Source: Wikipedia