Dorothy Elaine (Manley) McMullen was born on December 3, 1908, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Frank Luther and Annie Jane (McGuire) Manley. She arrived in Prescott in 1931, and on June 20, 1932, she married Herschel Harvey McMullen. His family had been in continual residence in Prescott since 1917. A highlight of her early life in Prescott was meeting Sharlot Hall and listening to Sharlot read some of her poems.

Margaret Griffiths (Hunt) McCormick, sometimes called "Maggie," "Allie" or "Madge," was born on May 3, 1843, in Rahway, New Jersey, to Caroline and Isaac G. Hunt. She spent her childhood on a large farm and was an accomplished pianist and horsewoman.  When she was twenty-two, she traveled to San Francisco accompanied by her cousin and her cousin’s husband to participate in the San Francisco social season.  It was a common occurrence at the time for a well-bred young woman due to the availability of suitors who might prove to be proper marriage material.

Mazie Pearl (De Armond) Beyer McCombs, daughter of Samantha Earnest and William Jasper De Armond, was born on December 23, 1907, at Fort Whipple in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. Her father, William, had come from Missouri to the Octave and Stanton area of Yavapai County earlier with his sister and brother-in-law; the two men were co-owners of the Bishop Mine. Once William got established, he returned to Kansas where he married his wife and then brought her to Stanton. William also built a boarding house in Stanton that served as a freighting and stage stop.

Nora Ann (McWhorter) Maders, the daughter of Matilda Jane (Watson) and Howard Sutton McWhorter, was born January 16, 1873, in a covered wagon in Howard County, Kansas. At the time of Nora’s birth, the family was traveling by covered wagon from Kentucky to a mining camp at Crown King in Yavapai County, Arizona Territory.  Like a true pioneer, Nora’s father took his family across the desert into Arizona Territory, which was known at the time as the land of hardships and privations. The family arrived in Arizona in 1873, and Nora lived in Yavapai County the rest of her life.

Virginia Lee (Lane) Lessard was born October 10, 1865, in Merced, California to James Harlow Lane of Indiana and Elizabeth Jane (Hooper) Lane of Missouri. In 1882, when Virginia was only seventeen, she moved with her family from California to the Arizona Territory mining districts.  Her father established a freight wagon company that moved supplies and materials from the Colorado River port of Hardyville (the current Bullhead City), Mohave County, to the  territorial capital of Prescott, and on to the mines and mining towns of the Bradshaw Mountains.

Mary Josephine (Smith) Lawler was born on November 9, 1873, in Iron Mountain, St. Francois County, Missouri. Her mother, Mary, and father, Martin, were Irish immigrants. As a young woman, Mary became one of the early Harvey Girls who worked in Harvey House restaurants associated with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in the Southwest. She came to Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory in 1894.

Mary Elizabeth (Betty) (Larremore) Lange was born on January 11, 1873, in Texas, the daughter of Lebbius T. and Sarah (Milne) Larremore. Otto Augustus Lange met Mary Elizabeth in Carlsbad, New Mexico, when she and her family were on the way to the Arizona Territory. Otto kept track of the Larremore family, and they both settled near Globe.

Edna Grace (Ritter) Lange was born into a pioneer Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, ranching family on October 8, 1908. Her grandfather ran cattle on the open range all the way from Prescott to Congress Junction.

Edna grew up on the Ritter Ts Ranch between the towns of Kirkland and Hillside. She attended school at Thompson Valley and Kirkland. In the wintertime, she dressed for school behind the kitchen range, putting on long underwear, a pantywaist, heavy black stockings, a wool jersey petticoat, and a wool dress.

Frances “Fannie” (Markbreit) Kautz was born on June 24, 1848, in Baden, Baden, Germany, the daughter of Johanna (Abele) and Leopold Markbreit. When the family immigrated to the United States is unknown. On November 27, 1872, she married Brigadier General August Valentin Kautz (1828-1895), who was a Civil War hero, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. She was his third wife. From 1874 until 1878, he was the Colonel of the 8th U. S. Infantry stationed at Fort Whipple, Arizona Territory. Fannie and their young son, Austin (1873-1927), moved to Prescott with August in 1874.

Fern (Foltz) Johnson, daughter of Martha (Pore) and Henry H. Foltz, was born on August 14, 1908, in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, at her parents' small farm, located at what today is the area of Camelback Road and 20th Street.