Pancho Villa's Daughter Micaela

PLAINFIELD, N.J. - Micaela Villa, 83, a daughter of Mexican revolutionary Gen. Francisco "Pancho" Villa, died Sunday.

Micaela Villa was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and grew up in a hacienda given to her father by the Mexican government. A piano virtuoso, she entertained diplomats at the home but was shuffled among stepmothers and aunts after her father was assassinated in 1923.

In 1952 she divorced her first husband and moved to the United States with her three children. She returned to Mexico a decade later and remarried, then moved back to the United States in 1973 after her second husband died.

Her father, one of the more important generals in the 1910-17 Mexican Revolution, is a national hero in Mexico.

He was largely responsible for the overthrow of Victoriano Huerta, who ran a corrupt and brutal dictatorship after taking power in a 1913 coup. Huerta fled Mexico under pressure from Villa's army in 1914.

Angered by U.S. recognition of his political enemy, Venustiano Caranza, Villa led raids into the United States in 1916. A U.S. Army expedition pursued Villa for 11 months but could not catch him.