For her loyalty to the revolutionary leader Juan Pablo Duarte and his ideals, she was deported, along with other members of her family.
Her brother, Manuel María Valverde, shared her revolutionary political views, and he became a hero of the Dominican Restoration War, which pushed Spain off the island and re-established the country as a republic.
She was aunt of President José Desiderio Valverde and first cousin-twice removed of Father Antonio Sánchez-Valverde.
[2] After the 1844 war broke out, Valverde took up a collection among women she knew to fund repairs to the protective wall in Santo Domingo.
[5] Ana Valverde Street begins in Josefa Brea, in the Social Improvement neighborhood and ends in Carlos Nouel, in Villa Consuelo.