In the previous issue of this paper, I stated that when the Aguinaldo forces came, and the American soldiers after them, the Ibalois who were uprooted from their respective villages returned to them thus making Baguio seemingly devoid of people except a few who belonged to the Apulog – Padya Clan, that is the Dengbises or Enrique Ortega Clan, the Pinaoan Baticalang and Picnay Clan, the Dovos Badjating and Tadaha Apulog Clan, and Kidit Apulog and his wife, Samay Piraso; and the Kumicho II clan.
The descendants of Kumicho by his son Apsan Carantes were Cuidno, Mateo a.ka Kustacio, Jatjaten and Tacdoy, a.k.a. Damsis.
In Pacshal and its adjacent areas, there were the descendants of Baticalang and his wife Sela the Ubanan or Uvanan (with grey hair, i.e uba n or uvan). They were Piraso, Pinaoan, Khasima and Sulikham.
From Piraso descended Salming, Cotileng, and others. From Pinaoan and Picnay were Molintas, Rafael who is also known as Rebes or Rives, and others. From Khasima were Mendoza (Tonged) Djaris, and Siwed and Shagul Abodilis. And from Sulikham and Comising who was also known as Tagdi and Tagley or Tagle and Tagley Soley was Amado, a.k.a Takinan.
These were the people who lived within the Baguio of that time, the one-square kilometer where the ‘paoay’ grass abounded hence its being referred to as Kafagwayan, aside from its being a place where the Baguio hang from the pine tree branches in great numbers.
There were also other Ibalois in Baguio then who did not leave the place when the Americans came. But some who were brought to the one-square kilometer wide Baguio that the Spaniards made into a ‘pueblo’ went back to their villages which they were forced to leave because of the Spaniards desire to concentrate them in their so-called pueblo. Kalias of Loakjan was one who went back to Loakan when the Americas came but his son Comising Tagle or Tagley was left behind with his wife Sulikham Baticalang. Their house was on the spot where the Baguio Cathedral now stands. Sulikham’s hrother Piraso lived on the area east of the Baguio Cathedral.
For some reasons, Tagdi and his wife Sulikham left for Bisil where the Bell Church was built years later when she was about to give birth to her second baby. There, Sulikham gave birth to her second and youngest son Takinan, after which she died.
Amado B. Tagle was said to have been born when the Americans arrived in Baguio. The person who wrote the information as to the date of birth of the late Amado based on the information relayed to him, that is, the date nunta inmu’gaw ni Merikano shi Baguio, i.e., when the Americans arrived in Baguio wrote Amado’s birth date as being on November 17, 1900.
Because of the demise of his wife Sulikham, Comising, or Mising who became Tagdi or Tagley followed his father Kalias to Loakan, bringing his baby boy and his firstborn with him. His female cousins who had babies of their own nursed Amado until he could eat solid food.
After a short while, Kalias died. But before he expired, he left instructions to his oldest daughter Bogan who was already a widow at that time, and to his youngest child Tagdi or Tagley who was already a widower at a young age, to help each other raise their children, where Bogan should act as the mother of their children, and Tagdi who was then still called Comising as the father of their children. This resulted to Tagley’s being known as the father of Bogan’s children, hence their surname Comising. Bogan;s children were Canaya, Pilanta, and Masinag, a.k.a Shaon who all bore the surname Comising. (To be continued).
(Authority to repost given by Author)
Published at:
Volume 1, No 4
TNT, Baguio City, Philippines
August 10, 2014
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