By Nancy Burgess
In a February 2025 Days Past article, Paul Fees wrote about two of Prescott’s extraordinary women, Sharlot Hall and Grace Sparkes, women who got things done. But there was a third member of the triumvirate of Prescott women who got things done: Grace Genung Chapman.  These three women were fondly called “Prescott’s Graces.”

Grace Laura Genung was the daughter of pioneer Yavapai County settlers Charles Baldwin Genung and Ida Elizabeth Smith Genung. The Genungs came to Yavapai County in 1863, before Arizona became a Territory. They settled in Peeples Valley where Charlie hunted, ranched, farmed, mined, built roads and became both a foe, and later a friend, of the Yavapai Indians. Grace was born in Peeples Valley on May 7, 1884, the youngest of the Genung’s eight children. She grew up there and made friends with the Yavapai children, who were her playmates. Her earliest civic-minded interest began in 1898 when she successfully raised $10 for the Arizona Roughrider monument fund.