13/04/2024
The mother and niece of Emilio Aguinaldo
Viejo, Kawit, Cavite early1900s.
Trinidad Famy Aguinaldo was known as 'Kapitana Teneng', a former cigarette maker who rose to the position of teacher and directress of the factory. Emilio’s parents were a Chinese mestizo couple of relative wealth and power as the father was the 'gobernadorcillo'. Trinidad was widowed when Emilio (her seventh of eight children) was only nine years old. She mortgaged some family-owned land in order to raise her children. Emilio studied at his town’s elementary school and continued his secondary studies at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran but did not finish because of cholera outbreak. She died (on July 22, 1916) at the age of 86.
source: John Tewell
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