Josephine Bracken (Later life) Upon returning to Hong Kong, she returned to her father's house.

After his death, she married Vicente Abd, a Cebuano mestizo, who represented his father's tabacalera company in Hong Kong. A daughter, Dolores, was born to the couple on April 17, 1900. Bracken died of tuberculosis on March 15, 1902, in Hong Kong and was interred at the Happy Valley Cemetery in that country.[1] Leonor Rivera (Relationship with Kipping) Rivera met Henry Kipping, the British engineer whom she later married, at Doa Carmen Villamils house. Villamil was a former classmate at La Concordia College in Manila. Kipping was associated with the engineer named Crisostomo Villamil, the supervising engineer of the Manila-Dagupan railroad line project at the time.[4] Rizals Sisters Jose Rizal and his brother, Paciano, had nine loving and supportive sisters, namely: Saturnina, Narcisa, Olimpia, Lucia, Maria, Concepcion, Josefa, Trinidad, and Soledad. Saturnina (1850-1913) married Manuel Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas. Their children were Alfredo (1883-1952), who married Aurora Tiaoqui; Adela (18861946), who married Jose Ver; Abelardo; and Amelia and Augusto, who both died young. In 1909 Doa Saturnina published Pascual Pobletes Tagalog translation of the Noli Me Tangere.

Narcisa (1852-1939) married Antonino Lopez, a teacher and musician from Morong, Rizal. Their children were Emilio; Angelica, who married Benito Abreu; Antonio (1878-1928), who married Emiliana Rizal (the daughter of Paciano Rizal); Consuelo; Leoncio, who married Natividad Arguelles; and Isabel, Francisco, Arsenio, and Fidela, all of whom died young. It is said that Doa Narcisa could recite from memory almost all the poems of Rizal.

Olimpia (1855-1887) married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator from Manila. Their children were Aristeo, who married Leonarda Limjap; Cesario and another boy, both of whom died young.

Lucia (1857-1919) married Mariano Herbosa of Calamba, Laguna. Their children were Delfina, first wife of Gen. Salvador Natividad and who helped Marcela Agoncillo make the first Filipino flag in Hong Kong; Concepcion; Patrocinio, who married Jose Battalones; Teodosio, who married Lucina Vitingco; Estanislao; and Paz, Victoria, and Jose, all of whom died young.

Maria (1859-1945) married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Bian, Laguna. Their children were Encarnacion, who married Rosendo Banaad; Mauricio, who married Concepcion Arguelles; and Petrona, Paz, and Prudencio, who all died young.

Concepcion (1862-1865), who followed Jose, died when Rizal was four.

Josefa (1865-1945) and Trinidad (1868-1951) lived together until their deaths. Both became members of the Katipunan. Trinidad was the custodian of Rizals elegy, Mi Ultimo Adios.

Soledad (1870-1929) married Pantaleon Quintero of Calamba, Laguna. Their children were Trinitario, who married Maria San Mateo; Amelia, who married Bernabe Malvar (son of Gen. Miguel Malvar); Luisa, who married Jose Arguelles; and Serafin and Felix, both of whom died young. Soledad, who became a teacher, is said to have been the best educated among Rizals sisters.

His sisters families also became very much involved in Rizals life. Saturnina, Narcisa, and Lucia, along with their parents and Manuel Hidalgo and Mariano Herbosa, were ordered to be deported, charged with rousing the people to refuse to pay land rent, and with causing the unrest in Calamba. Hidalgo was first exiled as a conspirator and representative of Jose Rizal, and again, as Rizal observed, without any accusation, without his knowing any crime of

which he was accused, excepting that he was my brother-in-law. Herbosa, who died of cholera in 1889, was denied a Christian burial because of his relation to Rizal. Rizals nephews were also known to have traveled with Rizal to Dapitan in 1893 or visited him there.

Rizals sisters figured largely in his life as much as his brother Paciano did. With Concepcion, Rizal shared games and stories made up by their governess. Rizal confided to Olimpia about his first sweetheart, Segunda Katigbak; and to Maria, he talked about wanting to marry Josephine Bracken, whom Rizals family apparently disapproved of. To support Rizals studies in Europe, the two older sisters pawned their jewelry and peddled clothes. All of Rizals sisters wrote to him about their parents and their own families as well as local occurrences such as the outbreak of cholera or the land taxes being imposed by the friars. They also visited him when he was exiled in Dapitan and right before his execution in 1896 (Trinidad had planned Rizals escape from Dapitan beforehand). Narcisa painstakingly searched the cemeteries in Manila for Rizals burial place. She had to bribe a gravedigger to place a marker on it, for she would not be allowed near the body, which had been buried without a box of any kind. Two years later, Rizals sisters dug up the body at the Paco cemetery. They found only the heros bones, shoes, and hat. PACIANO A. RIZAL After his brother was executed in December 1896, Paciano went to Imus, Cavite and offered his services to General Emilio Aguinaldo. The latter commissioned him as general of the Revolutionary Army and was elected secretary of finance in the Department Government of Central Luzon. Assigned as military commander of the revolutionary forces in Laguna, he fought valiantly against the Spaniards. Paciano continued to fight for independence even against the Americans. The latter captured him in Laguna in 1900. During the revolution, he had several meetings with Apolinario Mabini. He chose to live a quiet life after the war and busied himself in the farm. It was reported that Governor William Howard Taft once offered him an important position in the government, but he courteously

declined. He gracefully turned down offers for him to seek public office by prominent political leaders of Laguna. Pacianos strong principles was tried and tested again in 1907 when the newly created Philippine Assembly passed a resolution providing for a life pension of P200 a month for his mother for being the mother of Jose Rizal. He opposed the plan, saying that he was duty bound to aid and support his mother till her death. His mother, Teodora Alonso, also politely refused the pension saying: My family has never been patriots for money. If the government has plenty of funds and it does not know what to do with them it should better reduce the taxes. On April 13, 1930, Don Paciano died peacefully at his Los Baos home at age of 79. His remains were buried in the North Cemetery in Manila.