Fifth Generation

45. José (Tio Pepe) SIGNES MONFORT⁶⁵ was born on 30 Jan 1891 in Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, Spain. He served in the military about 1912 in Ceuta (Morocco), Málaga, Spain.⁶⁶ Fue cabo en el regimiento de telégrafos. He immigrated about 1917 to USA.^67,68 He lived a brief period of time in Mishawaka, Indiana. Sent a postcard to his father on 15 April 1917 from Washington, DC: "Padre, si quiere ganar dos duros y medio cada día venga aqui Si no tiene dinero y quiere para el viaje se le enviaré. Verá mucho." He was a «Guardía Civil» in Spain between 1919 and 1938.⁶⁹ De Madrid fue a Cataluña, entonces Castellón. He was in a Republican prison about 1938 in Morella, Castellón, Spain.⁶⁵ Según su hijo Julián, en 1937 Pepe fue con una columna [repúblicana] de la Guardia Civil de Morella a Teruel, controlado por Franco. Había en esta columna varios conspiradores franquistas, y fusilaron a varios de los líderes y todos los chicos izquierdistas. No tenían idea sobre lo politico de Pepe y no le mataron. Cuando Pepe oyó por casualidad a uno decir "No le vimos al Guardia Signes matar a nadie, huyó. Escapó, pero le encarcelaron los comunistas. Cuando se dieron cuenta de que no era un "Guardia Civil malo" lo pusieron en libertad. Marchó a Gata donde se quedó hasta acabar la Guerra. (Pepe was in a column of the Civil Guard on its way to the Front, when several officers revolted, shot the leaders and many of the young [leftist] men accompanying the column. They spared Pepe but wondered why he hadn't fired. He fled, but was later captured in one of the Republican towns and jailed for being a member of the rebel column. When the town found out he had no part in it, he was freed and returned to Gata for the rest of the war.) He was in Franco's prison between 1939 and 1941 in Alicante, Spain.^65,70 Después de la Guerra, los franquistas le condenaron a la cárcel por haber desertado la Guardia Civil. Según Julián, "Los comunistas querian matarle, y los de Franco también." Después fue encarcelado en Portaceli, Valencia. (After the war, the Nationalists imprisoned Pepe for desertion. Per his son Julian, "the communists wanted to kill him, and the Franco government too.") Pepe's travails are summarized in "Tio Pepe y la columna rebelde," edited by Emil SIGNES based on an interview with Julián SIGNES QUEROL. He was imprisoned for nearly two years.
He died on 27 Apr 1976 in Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, Spain.⁷¹ He was buried after 27 Apr 1976 in Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, Spain.⁷² Nicho nº 1332.

José (Tio Pepe) SIGNES MONFORT and Lucia Trinidad (Tía Trini) QUEROL FERRÁS were married on 7 May 1925 in Morella, Castellón, Spain.⁷³ Lucia Trinidad (Tía Trini) QUEROL FERRÁS (daughter of Julián QUEROL RIPOLLÉS and Fulgencia FERRÁS BONET) was born on 3 Nov 1907 in Morella, Castellón, Spain.⁷⁴ She moved to Gata about 1940 in Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, Spain.⁶⁵ She died on 18 Apr 1986 in Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, Spain.⁷⁴ José (Tio Pepe) SIGNES MONFORT and Lucia Trinidad (Tía Trini) QUEROL FERRÁS had the following children:

+85	i.	José (Pepe de Pepe) SIGNES QUEROL.
+86	ii.	Julián SIGNES QUEROL.