Our Girls

Daughters shape their fathers in profound ways often unseen, but they are felt by fathers of daughters.

Geronimo’s Daughter Lenna (or Lena), Lena Geronimo was born in 1886 in Fort Marion, St. Augustine, FL, while her father was a prisoner there. The medical staff gave her the name Marion, after the fort, but she took the name Lenna upon returning to the Southwest. Lenna Geronimo, the daughter of Geronimo and wife Ih-tedda, a Mescalero Apache, was the full sister of Robert Geronimo, Geronimo's only living son. Lenna was Bedonkohe-Mescalero.

Geronimo with his daughter Lenna, daughter of his wife Ih-tedda, a Mescalero Apache born 1886 in Fort Marion, St. Augustine, FL, while he was a prisoner.