The anthropologist and historian Henry Otley Beyer related this story to his colleague, Mauro Garcia, in the early 1950s. As the story goes, Pavón was the priest in the town of Himamaylan, Negros in the 1840s.
Isinalaysay ito ni Henry Otley Beyer sa kaniyang kasamang mananaysay na si Mauro Garcia noong bandang 1950. Ayon sa kuwento, si Pavón ang pari sa bayan ng Himamaylan, Negros noong dekadang 1840.