For the Complete Text of The Martina Castro Lodge Family
Photo: Carrie Electra Lodge in her living room, April 19, 1965
Lodge was the granddaughter of Martina Castro Lodge, holder of the largest Mexican land grant in Santa Cruz County and descendent of Isidro Castro who came to California as a soldier with the de Anza Party in 1776. Lodge relates a number of stories about her grandmother that have been handed down in the family; she also describes incidents in the life of her father, Michael Lodge II, who lived from 1838-1931. Some of her comments about her own childhood provide details of family life in the 1880s and '90s.
