2-612-078 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mariana Grajales Coello (1808-1893), Cuban icon of the women's struggle and the fight for an independent Cuba free from slavery. Mariana and her family served in the Ten Years' War, Little War (1868-1878) and the War of 1895. During her time serving in the war, Mariana ran hospitals and provision grounds on the base camps of her son Antonio, frequently entering the battlefield to aid wounded soldiers, both Spaniard and Cuban. In 1957 the Mayor of Havana, Justo Luis Pozo del Puerto, officially declared Doña Mariana Grajales de Maceo the Mother of Cuba. Cigar card from the History of Cuba, Geografico Universal, Propaganda de los Cigarros Susini y La Corona, Tabacalera Cubana. Mariana Grajales Coello died on November 27, 1893 in Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 85.[2] Posthumous Recognition