[1][2] On March 28, 1845, a few days after the death of her brother Francisco, she met her uncle José María Urbina, who was half-brother to her mother Josefa.

[3] The couple had five children: Jado was a practicing Catholic, coming to defend the cause of the Jesuits who unexpectedly arrived in Guayaquil when they were expelled from the Republic of New Granada in 1851.

[6] In March 1864, President Gabriel García Moreno ordered General Juan José Flores, then Governor of Guayas, to impose exile on Teresa and her four small children, who were unable to attend the wake of her grandmother who had died just twenty hours before.

On January 30, 1876, after the death of García Moreno, the family was able to return to Ecuador when General Urbina was called to be part of the National Constituent Assembly, after which their fortunes improved substantially.

[4] Her remains were transferred to Ecuador and she was buried in the General Cemetery of Guayaquil [es], in the same place as her husband, children, and other members of the immediate family.