Love, Mary B.

Born Mary Amanda McSwain in Virginia (1803), into an Irish family of very modest means, Mary Bennett Love met and married Vardamon Bennett in Georgia. In California, she left Bennett and married Harry Love. It's unclear whether she or Vardamon Bennett ever resided in Santa Cruz County, but several sons and a daughter did. Mary's story is told in Quite Contrary, The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love (2014 book).