Dominga Moncada, mother of General Guillermón Moncada, was the daughter of a midwife who learned her skills. In 1868, she and her daughter Filipa went to the mountains and worked as nurses. She was arrested several times and imprisoned at El Morro. At the end of the war, several mambisas (guerilla fighters) and their families left by boat for Jamaica. The next day , a Spanish gunboat intercepted the boats and most of the independence leaders were arrested and the other passengers returned to Cuban shores. . Dominga, with 70 years, her daughter Filippa, three more women and 5 children, between 3 and 11 years, were taken to a rowboat and left to die in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. Dominga was the main rower, while the other four took turns with the other oar. They arrived in Santiago de Cuba and were initially imprisoned, but then released. Her son, General Guillermo Moncada, wasimprisoned in Spanish prisons in Africa . When the brave warrior came to the country he was already mortally wounded by tuberculosis. She was imprisoned again for several weeks during the war of 1895. She died in 1905. The remains of Dominga initially were deposited in the Pantheon of the Veterans of the War of Independence, in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery , where more than 30 generals also rest Liberation Army Cuban.