 Member of an ideologically divided family, granddaughter of José Ignacio Pavón, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice (1858) Acting President of the country (1860) and supporter of bringing Maximilian, her father was liberal and Catholic, like herself, and close to the presidents Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz.She was born into a wealthy family, which later had shortcomings, partly due to the struggles between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party.To cope better with things, the family moved to Doctora 118 Street in Tacubaya, then a suburb of Mexico City.