Aguada was left behind to take care of her four children. She left her three older children in the care of Hospicio de San Jose, while she sold jewelry with her youngest child Salud, to support her family. In November 1902, her husband died; leaving her with another child named Artemio in honor of Artemio Ricarte. In 1910, she visited Gen. Ricarte who was in Hong Kong exiled for the second time after refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States. In May 1911, she married the general and lived there from 1910 to 1921 on the small island of Lemah. When the British government deported political exiles from Hong Kong during the outbreak of World War I, her family was shipped to Shanghai and then Japan. In 1921, they moved to Tokyo, where Gen. Ricarte taught Spanish in an overseas school. In April 1923 they transferred to Yokohama, where they lived permanently and opened a profitable restaurant. They lived there for eighteen years together with their children and grandchildren. After Japan occupied the Philippines, she came back. In 1944, she fell ill and died.