Mary “Louisa” (Wade) Wetherill, the daughter of John James and Julia Francis (Rush) Wade, was born on September 2, 1877, in Ward City, Elko County, Nevada. She grew up in the Colorado River Valley. She married John Wetherill (1866-1944), an explorer, guide and Indian trader, on March 17, 1896, in Montezuma, Colorado. She went with him to his 1,000-acre ranch in the Mesa Verde Valley.  John and Louisa had two children: Benjamin Wade and Georgia Ida (Wetherill) Kilcrease.

Mary Ellen “Minnie” (White) Webster was born on May 12, 1884, in Minnehaha, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, the daughter of Fergus John and Mary Ellen (Dwyer) White. In 1883, Fergus had established his family on a one-hundred-sixty-acre homestead in Minnehaha, where the family survived by selling meat to various Bradshaw mines, such as Crown King. Fergus did not give much support to the family due to his mental illness.  When Fergus died in 1895, Mary Ellen and her children remained to run the ranch themselves.

Margaret “Margie” Adelaide (Griffin) Armer Webb, the daughter of Laura Belle (Hocker) and Charles Clifford Griffin, was born on October 13, 1890, at Livingston, on the Griffin ranch in Gila County, Arizona Territory.  Livingston is now located under Roosevelt Lake. “Margie” attended the county school on the Salt River. From 1901 to 1905, she attended school in San Diego and completed her last two years of school in Young, Arizona.

Helen Beatrice (Shupp) Voller was a member of two of Yavapai County’s “first families,” the Shupps and the Gibsons.  She was born on September 13, 1902, in Skull Valley to Dora “Nellie” (Gibson) and Chester Alvin Shupp, who were both natives of Skull Valley. Her father operated the Shupp Ranch, the eleventh homestead officially issued by the Territory of Arizona. Nellie was the daughter of pioneers, Sarah Ann (Hayes) and William Washington Gibson, who came to Arizona from Texas around 1880. 

Jane Catherine “Jennie” (Hereford) Tritle was born in Independence, Missouri, on May 30, 1840, the daughter of Sarah C. S. Foote and Francis Harrison Hereford. Jennie was the granddaughter of Governor Henry S. Foote of Mississippi.  On October 16, 1862, she married Frederick Augustus Tritle in Sacramento, California. They came to the Arizona Territory a year-and-a-half before her husband was appointed Governor of Arizona Territory in 1882. He served until 1885.

Edith Almeta (Johns) Trengove was born July 1, 1872, in Lake Linden, Houghton County, Michigan. She was the youngest of five children.  She was the daughter of Maria (Rogers) and Alfred Raymond Johns.  When she registered to vote in Yavapai County in 1924, she was five feet four inches and weighed 150 pounds.

Hester Elvira (Shook) Travis was born on April 24, 1857, near Cedar Bluff, Alabama, daughter of William Taylor and Amanda Lavina Golightly Shook. On November 23, 1882, she married Charles Travis, a carpenter, in Gadsden, Alabama. Hester and Charles had one son, William Bliss Travis, born February 29, 1888, in Graysville, Tennessee.

Aileen Agnes (Powers) Tracy, daughter of Benjamin and Jessie Grace (Durbin) Powers, was born on May 22, 1905, in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, in a home shared by her parents and grandparents. Her grandmother became the caretaker of Murphy’s Park in 1909 after Frank Murphy, a local businessman and philanthropist, donated land in west Prescott for a zoo.  As Aileen grew older, her friends liked to visit her home so that they could see all the animals kept in cages and wandering the grounds.

Pauline Gerhardt “Fritzie” or “Polly” (Rosenblatt) Tovrea, the first of the six children of Paul “Pete” Gerhardt and Dora Cordelia (Leach) Rosenblatt, was born to her pioneer family on April 1, 1905, in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory.  Her maternal grandmother had walked behind covered wagons west to Colorado in the 1860s and then later to Arizona Territory. Her father came to Prescott in 1892.

Winifred “Winnie” Lucille (Mayer) Thorpe was born December 12, 1892, the youngest daughter of Sarah “Sadie” Belle (Wilbur) and Joseph Mayer in Mayer, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory.  Joe Mayer was born Joseph Hoffmire in 1846 in Olean, New York. At age 14, he left home as a result of a troubled life. He changed his name from Hoffmire to Mayer to avoid being found by his ill-tempered father.