At the beginning of September 1936, Falange troops entered Guillena. Many left-wing men had left for Madrid to join the Republican army and it seems that it was the local priest who denounced their wives. Most were farm workers and labourers aged between 20 and 70, and their only crime was being married to men linked to the CNT or to communism. There was no trial or court-martial and they did not give any information about their husbands, which is why they were killed. They were held until 12 October 1936, when they gave them castor oil, led them through the village with their heads shaved to humiliate them, took them to Gerena in a lorry and shot them in the cemetery.
Residents of Gerena who are still alive and remember the execution all recall that their screams could be heard throughout the town.
In 2010 the excavations instituted by Gerena Town Council and the exemplary and dynamic Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica de las Rosas de Guillena located a common grave where these women had been buried: Eulogia Alanís García, Ana María Fernández Ventura, Antonia Ferrer Moreno, Ana Granada Garzón de la Hera, Granada Hidalgo Garzón, Natividad León Hidalgo, Rosario León Hidalgo, Manuela Lianez González, Trinidad López Cabeza, Ramona Manchón, Manuela Méndez Jiménez, Ramona Navarro Lorenzo, Dolores Palacios Garzón, Josefa Lorenzo and Manuela Sánchez Gandullo.