Answer:
The couple settled in what is now Talisay City, a few minutes from the capital city of Bacolod. Since having many children was the norm in those days, the couple had 10 children before long. Soon, Maria was pregnant with their eleventh child, but she slipped in the bathroom and bled profusely. Mariano asked one of his servants to fetch a doctor in the nearby town of Silay, but the doctor came too late. Maria was dead
