María de las Nieves Chaves

From the English Wikipedia page on her birth place, Mora:

Mora (Santa Gertrudis de lo de Mora) was formally founded as a farming community in 1835[1] The settlers came primarily from Las Trampas, but also from Picuris and Embudo.[2] The 76 families each received a strip of land by grant of Governor Albino Perez.[1] Despite fanciful stories about fur trappers, scattered bones and subsistence on mulberries (mora means mulberry in Spanish), the fact is that the valley, the river and the town took their name from the family name "Mora" of several of the settler families.[1]

Footnotes:

• 1. Pearce, T. M. (1965) "Mora" New Mexico place names; a geographical dictionary University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, p. 104, OCLC 420847
• 2. Noble, David Grant (1994) "Mora" Pueblos, Villages, Forts & Trails: A Guide to New Mexico’s Past University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp. 175-179, ISBN 0-8263-1514-3