Catherine Martines Mortensen: Growing up Martinez in mostly Mormon Utah

During the height of the Great Depression, my great-grandfather, Jose Patricio Martinez, whose wife had recently passed away, took his two teenage sons, Jose Medardo and Jose Patricio, and left their tiny village in Northern New Mexico in search of a better life in Utah. He left his 16-year old daughter, Maria, with relatives and sent for her later.The Martinez family descended from Conquistadors who farmed the land north of Santa Fe for more than 300 years. As far as we know, these three men we