{"id":6811,"date":"2022-01-17T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:17:34","slug":"583-familia-gelly-y-obes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"583. familia gelly y obes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200803C12.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, Gelly y Obes\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Buenos Aires in 1815, <strong>Juan Andr\u00e9s Gelly y Obes<\/strong> had a high-ranking diplomat &amp; lawyer for a father. His family emigrated from Paraguay to Argentina for political reasons, &amp; after the birth of Juan Andr\u00e9s they had to move to Montevideo in 1830. Father &amp; son fought side by side against the relentless sieges of Rosas. Those early struggles no doubt inspired Gelly y Obes to enlist in the Argentine Legion at the age of 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although reaching the rank of Lt. Coronel, Montevideo would later lose all its appeal: his father moved to Brazil &amp; his mother died after being near a grenade explosion while visiting his position. He considered joining his father &amp; returning to Paraguay, but in the end became a politician\/military man in Buenos Aires. A long friendship with <a href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=146\">Bartolom\u00e9 Mitre<\/a>, begun in Montevideo, influenced his career for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200805B15.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, Gelly y Obes\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During Mitre&#8217;s presidency, Gelly y Obes was named Minister of the Army &amp; Navy but resigned to lead troops <em>in person<\/em> during the <a href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=258\">War of the Triple Alliance<\/a>. When Argentine forces began to sack Asunci\u00f3n, he stepped down based on family connections there; some Paraguayans even wanted him to be their next President. In the end, he continued service in Congress in Buenos Aires &amp; was reinstated in the military in 1877&#8230; to be removed again in 1880 after participating in a revolution with Mitre. Amazingly, this pattern would repeat itself when <a href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3053\">Julio Argentino Roca<\/a> reinstated Gelly y Obes only to be dismissed again after supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4141\">Revoluci\u00f3n del Parque<\/a> in 1890.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/GellyyObes2.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, Gelly y Obes\"\/><figcaption>Gelly y Obes in full regalia, image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Juan-Andr\u00e9s-Gelly-y-Obes\/6000000000406851568\">Geni<\/a> website.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Later reinstated, Gelly y Obes served on Argentina&#8217;s top military council &amp; supported the modernization of the military under General <a href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=254\">Pablo Riccheri<\/a>. He passed away in 1904 at the age of 89 after a lifetime of service with no equal other than perhaps that of his friend Mitre! This Neogothic mausoleum sits near the rear wall of the cemetery &amp; declared a <a href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?page_id=164\">National Historic Monument<\/a> in 1946.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Buenos Aires in 1815, Juan Andr\u00e9s Gelly y Obes had a high-ranking diplomat &amp; lawyer for a father. His family emigrated from Paraguay&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=6811\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">583. familia gelly y obes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6826,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}