Jesusita Aragón

She was trained in midwifery by her grandmother and traveled by horseback to provide care to women in northeastern New Mexico.

She earned her midwifery certification and moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she built a house which she used as a maternity center.

She was named a Santa Fe Living Treasure and received the Sage Femme Award of the Midwives Alliance of North America.

Jesusita Aragón was born to a Hispanic New Mexican family in 1908 at a ranch named El Rancho Trujillo in Sapello, San Miguel County.

[4] She assisted her grandmother with births, delivering her first baby at the age of 14 and earning the title la partera.

[11] Fran Leeper Buss wrote the 1980 book La Partera: A Story About a Midwife based on interviews with Aragón.