04/06/2025
Photograph of Eva Geronimo, Geronimo and Emily Chihuahua, taken on March 14, 1904, probably in the studio of photographer H. H. Clarke, in Oklahoma City.Eva Geronimo Godeley was born on September 23, 1889. She was the daughter of Zi-yeh and Geronimo.In July 1890, Zi-yeh and her 10-month-old daughter Eva were baptized at Mount Vernon Church. When Eva was three years old, on any given Sunday in 1893, the well-dressed Geronimofamily could be seen and the ancient warrior carrying Eva in a stroller baby. Other times, when Geronimo went into a store to buy supplies and Eva was with him, he would buy her everything his daughter asked for.
In 1897, the painter Eldridge Ayer Burbank was sent by the “Chicago Field Museum” to paint a portrait of Geronimo. He also portrayed Eva at the age of nine (in 1898), writing in his notes: "No one could be kinder to a child than Geronimo was to her."
In the late summer of 1905, Eva's puberty ceremony took place.
When Geronimo died, Eva was at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School (Newkirk, Kay County, Oklahoma) with her half-brother Robert, son of Ih-tedda.
Eva married her fellow Chilocco student, Fred Godeley or Golene. They had a daughter who was born on June 21, 1910, Evaline Golene, but she died after two months, on August 20.
Eva died of tuberculosis, less than a year later, on August 10, 1911.
Emily Chihuahua Tee was born on July 5, 1889. She was the daughter of Ilth-gozey and Chihuahua. She married Paul Teenabikezen, having a daughter, Edna. After Paul's death, Emily married John Hubbard, a Mescalero Apache.
Emily died on March 30, 1909, being buried next to Paul Teenanbikezen in the Northern Apache Cemetery, also called Chief Chihuahua Cemetery, in Lawton (Comanche County, Oklahoma).
