May Elenor (Imus) Davis Brown Young, daughter of Edwin and Rose (Hunt) Imus, was born on January 7, 1878, on the Goodwin Homestead at the fork of Walnut and Apache creeks, about fifty miles northwest of Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. Edwin and Rose were one of the first ranching families to settle in Mohave County.  They homesteaded the site of old Camp Willow.

Lucille (Singletary) Denson Yopp was born December 7, 1877, in Texas. In 1886, her father, Daniel C. Singletary, a farmer, founded the Monaville Post Office in his store on Harris Creek in central Waller County, Texas. He named the community Monaville in honor of his daughter. In 1900, Lucille was working in her father’s grocery. She had a sister, Mona, and a brother, Julian.

Frances “Frankie” Belle (Middleton) Wood, daughter of Cora Ellsworth (Chishom) and Charles M. Middleton, was born on August 11, 1879, at Hallettsville, Lavaca Vegas County, Texas. She arrived in Geronimo, Graham County, Arizona, on August 24, 1896.

Elizabeth Malvina (Russell) Hopper Wine was born on January 25, 1863, in Pineville, Missouri to Alvina Caroline (Davenport) and Carlyle Ross Russell. Elizabeth married Robert Monroe Hopper in McDonald County, Missouri, on August 24, 1877.

Esta (Redden) Winchester was born in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, on June 15, 1900, the daughter of Esta Maria (Miller) and Monroe Redden.  She was born in the old Governor’s Mansion because her relative was a tenant there at the time. Her mother died eight days after her birth. She and her sister, Rachel, were raised by her grandmother, Rachel (Wiebrecht) Miller on the Miller Ranch in Skull Valley. Esta is the grandniece of Sam Miller, for whom Miller Valley is named.

May “Lilly” (Larremore) Wilson was born on May 10, 1898, in Prescott, the youngest child of nine children of Sarah Jane (Milne) and Lebbeous Thaddeus Larremore of Yeager Canyon, Yavapai County, Arizona. In later years, she went by the name of May. She attended school in McCabe and Humboldt.

Theora “Thee” Margaret Marie (Shields) Darnell Widener was born November 25, 1909, in Solomonville, Arizona, to Florence Belle (Riggs) and Frank Ward Shields, both Arizona natives. She first lived on the UX Ranch (originally the McKinney Ranch), in Cochise County near Bowie, Arizona. The ranch house was one of the oldest in Arizona.

Mary Ellen (Dwyer) White, daughter of John and Marguerite (White) Dwyer, was born on October 15, 1851, in Caherdaniel, Kerry County, Ireland. In 1872, she immigrated to the United States from Ireland and arrived in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, on April 23, 1880.

Blanche Julia White, daughter of Fergus John and Mary Ellen (Dwyer) White, was born on April 23, 1888, at Minnehaha, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. Her parents owned a one-hundred-sixty-acre land grant and ran a cattle ranch that provided meat to the miners. Blanche helped her mother and siblings run the ranch and take care of the home when her father, Fergus, was not available to help. Fergus died in 1895.

Blanche (Lowry) Whetstine was born in Eugene, Indiana, on August 11, 1880, the daughter of Sarah (Wiltermood) and John G. Lowry. By 1900, the family had moved to Kansas.

According to her obituary in the Phoenix Arizona Republic, dated May 18, 1973, she came to Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, in 1902. In 1907 at the Lowry home in Kansas, she married James L. Whetstine, who was assistant postmaster in Poland, Yavapai County.  Every resident of the town of Poland signed a congratulatory telegram to the young couple at the time of their wedding. Blanche and James had no children.