Thomas Wrightington

[2] Juana Machado Alipas de Wrightington, along with being a wife and mother, often rode with Father Ubach into the back country to visit the Indian rancherías and to check conditions.

During 1844 and again during 1847 – March 1848 he was Suplente (Substitute Justice of the Peace or Mayor) of Pueblo San Diego.

Richard Henry Dana Jr. in his novel Two Years Before the Mast commented on first coming ashore at San Diego that Wrightington died in 1853.

A room was rented out of her house to Dr. George McKinstry for over 30 years as a physician's office, with Juana as a nurse.

Juana is buried in Calvary Cemetery (now Pioneer Park) in Mission Hills, San Diego with a headstone that reads "JUANITA WRIGHTINGTON 1814–1901".