Clare and Elva Ryder write:
Hope baby is fine and stays fine. Elva and I will be down to see you in vacation maybe at the grove. Give a AdR [?] a kiss and a hug for us both.
Clare and Elva
Clare and Elva are the daughters of David Kirby Ryder and Amy Lockhart of Scotts Valley. The Lockhart and Ryder families were early settlers in Scotts Valley; Lockhart Gulch and Ryder Road are named for them.
The baby, Ada, was born on January 28. Clare and Elva are her aunts – sisters of Charles.
Charles, known by his friends as Chuck, attended and graduated school in Scotts Valley before being employed by Wells Fargo. He passed away suddenly in 1925, aged 35, leaving his wife Lydia, Ada who was 12, and an infant boy, Charles, just 3 months old. Lydia went to live with her brothers Robert and Rugner Erickson in Boulder Creek. She passed away in 1955. Ada married and moved out of the county, but her brother Charles remained in Boulder Creek until his passing in 1995.
