Ortega was given a Spanish "land concession" in 1794, which he named Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio (Rancho Refugio) near Santa Barbara. He built his ranch here, but didn't enjoy it long. On February 3, 1798, Ortega fell from his horse and died at age 65 near the Indian village of Casil at Refugio Beach. He was buried at Mission Santa Barbara the following day. Ortega's descendants became one of the prominent Californio families. His son Ygnacio was the 1809 grantee of Rancho San Ysidro. Granddaughter Maria de Guadalupe married the naturalized American Joseph John Chapman. Granddaughter Maria del Pilar Ortega married Santiago Argüello, alcalde of San Diego and grantee of the Rancho ex-Mission San Diego and the Rancho Tijuana. Granddaughter Maria Soledad Ortega married Luis Argüello, the first native-born governor of Alta California. Another granddaughter married Scottish immigrant John Gilroy, namesake of Gilroy, California. Ginny Montes  Virginia Elenor Montes (1943 – October 6, 1994) was a civil rights activist and feminist who was the first Latina to become a national officer of the National Organization for Women. Ginny Montes was born in 1943 in Guanaja, Honduras. Her family moved to Tampa, Florida, when she was ten years old. She graduated from Jefferson High School in Tampa, and attended the University of Florida, receiving a B.A. with a major in Sociology in 1968. Montes became active with the Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER) while still a student. She eventually was elected president of GWER. After graduation, she worked as a social worker for what is now the Florida Department of Children and Families. In 1975, she moved to Tallahassee, Florida, to pursue a master's degree in criminal justice at Florida State University. Montes moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1980 to work for the Southern Regional Council (SRC) as director of legislative research. She also served as director of Project 1990 and director of SRC Voting Rights Programs. Over a 14-year period she assisted SRC in developing legislative analysis on issues relating to civil rights, poverty, children and housing. She also helped black legislators in the southern states as they organized legislative caucuses and was involved in efforts supporting the extension of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1982.