BIOGRAPHY: Valentina was told her father died in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
DEATH: died at 50 yrs old according to my grdmother,Valentina Valdez Embry(Jose Sumo's grddaughter).
Don Ponciano Estrella DEL VALLE
BIOGRAPHY: When he was a bachelor,Ponciano lived with his Estrella-Cojuangco relatives in the United States.He had a very good relationship with all of them,especially with his nephew,Itoy(Don Juan).
Don Agustin Del Valle,his older brother was municipal mayor of Paniqui,Tarlac.Before living in Paniqui,Ponciano resided in Tayabas Quezon Province for many years.Later,he went to Mindanao as a homesteader, owning abaca and rubber plantations in Davao & Kidapawan.He enjoyed talking about his adventures, travels,political opinions,philosophy etc.to his grandchildren.
He was also a World War I U.S. veteran-pensioner.
Rosita was born during the feast day of St. Rose of Lima. She was named in honor of the saint.Her mother died before she was a year old Rosita was the only child of Gen Mamerto Natividad that survived to adulthood.
She was honored at the June 22,1957 inauguration of the Nueva Ecija town named after her father-General Natividad(formerly the town of Caparangan,Cabanatuan).
Antera,sister of Eugenia,married Jose Cojuangco I.
Gen. Mamerto Alejandrino NATIVIDAD
BIOGRAPHY: Education:
school of Jose Flores in Binondo
Ateneo Municipal de Manila
College of San Juan de Letran,Dept of Commerce
Revolutionary period:
He was incarcerated in Bilibid after being mistaken for his father (Mamerto Sr was already executed by the Spanish authorities).
With his brothers,Mamertito joined the Philippine rebellion against the Spanish authorities.
In May 1897 he was appointed Commander-General of the Philippine Revolutionary Army by Gen Emilio Aguinaldo,(also appointed was Paciano Rizal as Gov. of Laguna).Under Gen Natividad's order were:Gregorio del Pilar,Francisco Macabulos of Tarlac,Mariano & Eduardo Llanera,Manuel Tinio,etc.(ref. Documentary Sources of Phil Hist by Gregorio Zaide Vol 8 p.405).
Gen Mamerto established his headquarters at the foothills of Sierra Madre mountains in a cave called Bahay Paniki(house of evening bats)
He drafted the manifesto Decree of Biac-na-Bato in Jul 1897(Biak-na-Bato,San Miguel de Mayumo,Bulacan).
He was a signer of the Constitution of Pact of Biac-na-Bato on 11/1/1897(this constitution established the provisional revolutionary government & was closely patterned after the Cuban Constitution of Jimaaguaya,1895).
He was the author,"To all Lovers of Our National Honors"(ref. Fil Heritage of the Making of a Nation,Fpq959.9 Filipino Vol 8 p 2046.
He wrote with Jose Clemente Zulueta(husband of his sister,Paz Natividad )Gen Emilio Aguinaldo's proclamation in Biak-na-Bato in July 1897(ref.Alejandrino,Jose.1986.The Price of Freedom.Manila:Solar Publishing Corp.Coates,Austin.1968).
He belonged to the Katipunan,Magdalo faction.
He fought against the Spaniards in the battles of Pitong Bato(Imus Cavite);San Rafael(8/5-8/7,1897),Baliuag Bulacan;Santa Bongabong (9/3/1897),Aliaga(9/21/1897), & Karanglan Nueva Ecija.
Pres.Emilio Aguinaldo paid tribute to Gen.Mamerto in his message to the opening of the Malolos Congress in the Barasoin Church,Malolos Bulacan on Sept. 15, 1898 when he said,"Manes ilustres de Rizal,de Lopez Jaena,de Hilario del Pilar:sombras augustas de Burgos,Pelaez Y Panganiban:genios guerreros de Aguinaldo y Tironas de Natividad y Evangelista.."{Illustrious spirits of Rizal,of Lopez Jaena,of Marcelo del Pilar' August shades of Burgos,Pelaez and Panganiban! Warlike geniuses of Aguinaldo and Tirona,of Natividad and Evangelista!..."}(ref. Zaide,Gregorio.Documentary Sources of Phil History Vol 9 page 340.;The Malolos Congress by the Phil Historical Committee,1963)
As a retaliation to the Natividad brothers' revolutionary activities the Spanish authorities burned their houses & sugar mills(ref.Quirino,Carlos. Who's who in Phil HistoryBIOGRAPHY: Other Ref:
BIOGRAPHY: Agoncillo,Alfonso.A Short Lived Hist of the Fil.People
David Habard Bain.Sitting in the Darkness
Filipinos in History by the Phil National Historical Institute
Mga Gunita ng Himagsikan by Emilio Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo,Emilio.
Resena Veridica de la Revolucion Filipina(True Account of the Phil. Revolution)
The Katipunan & the Revolution, Memoirs of a General by Santiago V.Alvarez,translated into English by Carolina S. Malay,introduction by Ruby R. Paredes,pub by the Ateneo de Manila University Press
Pio del Pilar & Other Heroes by Orlino A. Ochosa,ed.by Frank A.Hilario
Kasaysayan,History of the Filipinos,Tqq915.99002,Bureau of Phil. Education,1970
Life & Death of a Boy General by Teodoro M. Kalaw(Manila:National Historical Commision,1974DEATH: At 26 yrs old Gen Mamerto was shot through the right eyebrow during the Battle of Cabiao by a Spanish sniper.He was carried by his comrades going back to Biak-na-Bato,Bulacan,but he died on the way there.
He was buried with military honors and a period of mourning was declared.Eulogies were given by Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo & Pedro Paterno.
The Treaty of Biak-na Bato was signed after his death.The
Spanish authorities exiled the revolutionary leaders to Hongkong.Included in the exile with Gen Emilio Aguinaldo was Gen. Benito Natividad,a brother of Gen Mamerto.BIRTH: Birthplace:
Bacolor became capital of Pampanga after it was created a province by the Spaniards in 1572.
Pampanga,a south-central Luzon prov., was already a native settlement by the "Kapangpangans"(people by the river bank)before the arrival of the Spaniards.
BIOGRAPHY:
Cabiao,a Pampangan town settled before the Spanish era,was annexed to Nueva Ecija in 1848(others were SanIsidro,Gapan,SanAntonio,Aliaga).N.E. was founded in 1705 by the Spanish Gov. Gen Cruzat.He named the province after his hometown of Ecija,Seville in southern Spain.
Gen. Mamerto Alejandrino NATIVIDAD
BIOGRAPHY: Education:
school of Jose Flores in Binondo
Ateneo Municipal de Manila
College of San Juan de Letran,Dept of Commerce
Revolutionary period:
He was incarcerated in Bilibid after being mistaken for his father (Mamerto Sr was already executed by the Spanish authorities).
With his brothers,Mamertito joined the Philippine rebellion against the Spanish authorities.
In May 1897 he was appointed Commander-General of the Philippine Revolutionary Army by Gen Emilio Aguinaldo,(also appointed was Paciano Rizal as Gov. of Laguna).Under Gen Natividad's order were:Gregorio del Pilar,Francisco Macabulos of Tarlac,Mariano & Eduardo Llanera,Manuel Tinio,etc.(ref. Documentary Sources of Phil Hist by Gregorio Zaide Vol 8 p.405).
Gen Mamerto established his headquarters at the foothills of Sierra Madre mountains in a cave called Bahay Paniki(house of evening bats)
He drafted the manifesto Decree of Biac-na-Bato in Jul 1897(Biak-na-Bato,San Miguel de Mayumo,Bulacan).
He was a signer of the Constitution of Pact of Biac-na-Bato on 11/1/1897(this constitution established the provisional revolutionary government & was closely patterned after the Cuban Constitution of Jimaaguaya,1895).
He was the author,"To all Lovers of Our National Honors"(ref. Fil Heritage of the Making of a Nation,Fpq959.9 Filipino Vol 8 p 2046.
He wrote with Jose Clemente Zulueta(husband of his sister,Paz Natividad )Gen Emilio Aguinaldo's proclamation in Biak-na-Bato in July 1897(ref.Alejandrino,Jose.1986.The Price of Freedom.Manila:Solar Publishing Corp.Coates,Austin.1968).
He belonged to the Katipunan,Magdalo faction.
He fought against the Spaniards in the battles of Pitong Bato(Imus Cavite);San Rafael(8/5-8/7,1897),Baliuag Bulacan;Santa Bongabong (9/3/1897),Aliaga(9/21/1897), & Karanglan Nueva Ecija.
Pres.Emilio Aguinaldo paid tribute to Gen.Mamerto in his message to the opening of the Malolos Congress in the Barasoin Church,Malolos Bulacan on Sept. 15, 1898 when he said,"Manes ilustres de Rizal,de Lopez Jaena,de Hilario del Pilar:sombras augustas de Burgos,Pelaez Y Panganiban:genios guerreros de Aguinaldo y Tironas de Natividad y Evangelista.."{Illustrious spirits of Rizal,of Lopez Jaena,of Marcelo del Pilar' August shades of Burgos,Pelaez and Panganiban! Warlike geniuses of Aguinaldo and Tirona,of Natividad and Evangelista!..."}(ref. Zaide,Gregorio.Documentary Sources of Phil History Vol 9 page 340.;The Malolos Congress by the Phil Historical Committee,1963)
As a retaliation to the Natividad brothers' revolutionary activities the Spanish authorities burned their houses & sugar mills(ref.Quirino,Carlos. Who's who in Phil HistoryBIOGRAPHY: Other Ref:
BIOGRAPHY: Agoncillo,Alfonso.A Short Lived Hist of the Fil.People
David Habard Bain.Sitting in the Darkness
Filipinos in History by the Phil National Historical Institute
Mga Gunita ng Himagsikan by Emilio Aguinaldo
Aguinaldo,Emilio.
Resena Veridica de la Revolucion Filipina(True Account of the Phil. Revolution)
The Katipunan & the Revolution, Memoirs of a General by Santiago V.Alvarez,translated into English by Carolina S. Malay,introduction by Ruby R. Paredes,pub by the Ateneo de Manila University Press
Pio del Pilar & Other Heroes by Orlino A. Ochosa,ed.by Frank A.Hilario
Kasaysayan,History of the Filipinos,Tqq915.99002,Bureau of Phil. Education,1970
Life & Death of a Boy General by Teodoro M. Kalaw(Manila:National Historical Commision,1974DEATH: At 26 yrs old Gen Mamerto was shot through the right eyebrow during the Battle of Cabiao by a Spanish sniper.He was carried by his comrades going back to Biak-na-Bato,Bulacan,but he died on the way there.
He was buried with military honors and a period of mourning was declared.Eulogies were given by Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo & Pedro Paterno.
The Treaty of Biak-na Bato was signed after his death.The
Spanish authorities exiled the revolutionary leaders to Hongkong.Included in the exile with Gen Emilio Aguinaldo was Gen. Benito Natividad,a brother of Gen Mamerto.BIRTH: Birthplace:
Bacolor became capital of Pampanga after it was created a province by the Spaniards in 1572.
Pampanga,a south-central Luzon prov., was already a native settlement by the "Kapangpangans"(people by the river bank)before the arrival of the Spaniards.