Ernesto García
Ernesto García Castañeda (; 27 February 1884 – 28 January 1955) was a Mexican soldier who participated in the Mexican Revolution and the Battle of Zacatecas, serving as a colonel in Pancho Villa's army. Early life and military years. García was born on 27 February 1884 near Nieves, Zacatecas as the second of seven child (and the only one to live to adulthood) of José García Ávila (c. 1855–1935) and his first wife Marciana Castañeda Samaniego (1862–1893). He was baptized eleven days later on 9 March in the Catholic Church of Santa María de las Nieves. After Castañeda died  young from illness, her widow married again to Ignacia Balderas Martínez in 1897 and had four more children before she died in 1901. In 1910, the Mexican Revolution broke out, prompting García to enlist and help in the cause. In total, he participated in 29 military actions, rising through the ranks and earning himself the rank of colonel through his courage and valor while fighting under general Pancho Villa. Later life and death. Shortly after the Battle of Zacatecas, he returned to Nieves and married Luciana Segura Burciaga (1890–1942) on 15 July 1914 (which was the same day of President  Victoriano Huerta's resignation following the defeat of the Federal Army at the Battle of Zacatecas). In 1930, García was elected to the first of several terms as the municipal president of the municipality of Nieves (which was later renamed the municipality of General Francisco R. Murguía). After Segura died on 16 August 1942 of complications from hypertension, García married Rosa Hernández Delgado (1914–1978) on 10 February 1943. During their marriage, they had 7 children, 3 of whom are, as of 2021, still alive and living in Mexico. On 28 January 1955, García died from pneumonia at the age of  70. He is interred in the municipal cemetery.