Ines’ family in the time of Ethel

About seven years after the passing of Ines, Carlos married his second wife Ethel Tunnell.  She was from the family of a long time business partner that he had known both in Peru and in Cuba.  This business partner’s family roots were in Long Island, New York.  Ethel was about the same age as Ines and Carlos’ oldest daughter Agnes.  She was Agnes’ girlhood friend who later married her father. But Agnes was very accepting of the idea.  Ethel would later recount to Patty Wilson, her neice, that she had decided when she was very young that she was going to marry Carlos one day.  Be that as it may, the family has good memories of their time together.  In the 1920’s and 30’s the children had been sent to boarding school in the New York area while their father remained in Cuba. But at various points in time while growing up they all spent some time in Cuba or Ecuador also.  As they approached adulthood they lived only in the New York area (Long Island) while their father, after his marriage to Ethel, accepted a position in Tampa Florida.  Agnes and her family would drive down to Tampa every summer from Long Island to visit her Father and her girlhood friend who was now (technically) her stepmother.  Carlotta and her family and Charlie and his family would also visit occasionally.   Meanwhile a single man named John Sheehan had a job as a milkman delivering milk to residences and Agnes’ residence was on John Sheehan’s route.  “It was love at first quart” reports her daughter Marianne.  And yes, Agnes married her milkman.  Her husband John later became a New York Policeman.    Photos from this period are below.

  • Agnes, Ines' oldest daughter
  • Carlos, Ethel, Carlotta, Chow Dog Suzie (St. Albans, 1940)
  • Carlos, Dock, Shinecock Bay, Long Island