She was one of the first female members of Confederation established by her older brother Andres Bonifacio.
Her father was Santiago Bonifacio of Taguig, a tailor who served as a teniente mayor of Tondo, Manila.
There were only around 30 women members of the Katipunan, limited to wives, daughters and close relatives of Katipuneros.
The Bonifacio siblings were orphaned at an early age and Andrés had to act as the family's breadwinner.
[2] In 1893, when she was seventeen years old, she married Teodoro Plata, one of the founders of the Katipunan.