Nellie Grace (Miller) Ritter was born in Barrackville, Marion County, West Virginia, on March 20, 1882, the daughter of Enos and Mary Elizabeth (Pitzer) Miller. Her mother died in 1898. Nellie came to the Arizona Territory in 1902 to care for her brother, Curtis, who had arrived in Arizona before her and then become ill with tuberculosis.

Renette (Hill) Rees was born December 29, 1882, in San Diego County, California, the daughter of Clayton E. and Laura Hill. She had one brother, Herbert, born in 1888. She came to Chino Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, in 1883 when she was one year old for a visit with her relatives, the Storm family of Chino Valley.

Ida May (Finch) Redden was born October 27, 1876, in Florence,  Pinal County, Arizona Territory, the daughter of Sarah (Lewis) and George Nelson Finch, early pioneers of California and the Arizona Territory. Ida was one of nine children born to her relatively poor but hard-working parents.  Her siblings were Charles Edward, Louisa, Emma, Robert, Jesse Martin, Ira Lewis, George Nelson and Carrie Isabel.

Abbie Harriet (Wright) Raudebaugh was born June 5, 1886, in Clifton, Iroquois County, Illinois, the daughter of Mary (Harling) and Charles Wright. Abbie had two younger brothers, Willard and Guy. Unfortunately, Willard lost his life during World War I.

Like many women of her time, Abbie endured hardships and sorrows but continued to live with diligence, sweetness and humor.  Abbie lost her mother when she was quite young and was not treated kindly by her stepmother.  She attended school in Chicago as a teenager, while living with her father, stepmother and brothers.

Laura C. (Digby) Perkins was born on January 15, 1886, in Cold Springs, Campbell County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Sarah “Sallie” (Murnan) and James S. Digby. Laura was the youngest of seven children; her siblings were James Jr., Fannie, Josie, Lida, Kennel and Susan.

Marcia Anna (Wing) Payne was born May 26, 1858, in Muskegon, Michigan, the daughter of Harriet (Trowbridge) and Thomas Wing. In the late 1870s, her brothers, James and George, came to the Arizona Territory seeking fame and fortune as gold miners.

Pauline Marie (Schindler) O'Neill was born January 13, 1865, in San Francisco, California, the only child of W. F. R. Schindler and Rosalie Young Schindler. Her father, an army officer, was transferred to Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, about 1884. Pauline was nineteen at the time.

Etta married William J. Oliver Jr. (1862 – 1941) of the Indian Service on July 3, 1900, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. They had six children: Helen Margaret (March 31, 1901), twins Edgar Charles and Agnes Estelle (May 11, 1903), Louise (February 25, 1905), William John Jr. (July 21, 1914), and Robert Vaughn (August 18, 1916).

Mary Alice (Born) Heller Noyes was born March 27, 1911, in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, to Charles and Margaret (Johnston) Born. She was one of nine children. Her brothers and sisters were Johnston Augustus Born, Charles Dewey Born, Robert Valentine Born, Helen Margaret Born, Dr. Ernest A. Born, Fredrick Shirley Born, James Sidney Born, and Ralph Marvin Born, the youngest. Mary’s father was born in New York and made his way to Colorado and then to Prescott with his growing family.

Marguerite “Thelma” (Parker) Buchanan Noble was born on January 29, 1910, in the town of Roosevelt, Arizona Territory, where her father furnished mules for the construction of Roosevelt Dam. The waters of Roosevelt Lake eventually inundated this settlement, which had also been known as Tent City.