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Saturday, February 20, 2021

February 20: A Puerto Rican Woman in New York

As I searched through New York death records I found the February 20, 1947 death of 40-year-old Carmen Palacio Gerena. Carmen was a Black woman who had been born in Puerto Rico in 1906 to Jose and Maria Palacio. She worked at a dress factory and lived with her husband, Salvatore, on West 103rd Street in Manhattan.

Carmen died of paralytic ileus, septic peritonitis, following septic endometritis and pelvic abscess from an criminal abortion in Harlem Hospital.

Carmen's sister, Margarita, was her executor. I've been unable to determine anything else about Carmen.

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