Felicita Meyers

Felicita Meyers

Marie Felicita Tortes Meyers grew up in the Cahuilla settlement at Spring Rancheria, an area now known as Indian Hill Drive. A member of the Santa Rosa Tribe, Felicita also frequently resided on the Santa Rosa reservation.

In 1883 when her husband John died, and Felicita, with three small children to raise, went to work for her friend Frank Miller in the laundry at the Glenwood (Mission Inn). Her son Jack “Chief” Meyers became a famous baseball player, playing for the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Nationals (later the Dodgers) from 1911 to 1917.