Myrtle Mae (Wallace) Atkins Joesler was born April 21, 1888, the daughter of Bartow P. and Lilly M. (Smith) Wallace. Myrtle was born in Silver City, New Mexico, close to the family home in Duncan, Greenlee County, Arizona Territory. She was the eldest of ten children.

Viola Sica-tuva (Pelhame) Jimulla was born on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and was named Sica-tuva, "Born Quickly," by her parents, Who-wah, "Singing Cricket" and Ka-hava-soo-ah, "Turquoise Bead in Nose."  She did not have a birth certificate and chose June 15 as her birth date in 1878. She took the name Viola and her stepfather's last name, Pelhame, when she attended Rice Indian School and Phoenix Indian School.

Olive Christina (Robertson) Hood was born June 22, 1888, in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona Territory.  She was the youngest of three girls in a family of five children. Her parents were Alice (Madora) Robertson and Samuel Christy Robertson, who arrived by wagon in Tombstone on Christmas Day 1880. They brought mining machinery from St. Joseph, Missouri, in their wagon along with their family. Sam and Alice were residents of Cochise County the remainder of their lives.

Wilhelmina “Minnie” Margarethe (Rebbe) Hollingshead was born March 22, 1881, in Crow Creek, Buffalo County, South Dakota. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Caroline (Bader) and Heinrich Diedrich Richard Rebbe. In 1898, she graduated with a teaching certificate from the Normal School at Spearfish, Lawrence County, South Dakota. She taught at the one-room school house her father built on one acre on the west end of their property in 1881.

Irene Anna (Contreras) Olea Hilbers was born on the family homestead near Skull Valley, Arizona Territory, on July 9, 1911, to Edward and Inocentie (Leivas) Contreras. Irene was one of a family of eight children. Her roots in Arizona were deep: her grandfather, Lucas Contreras, emigrated from Spain and migrated to Casa Grande from California in the 1870s.

Alice Oliver (Butterfield) Hewins was born on May 26, 1878, the daughter of William and Nora (Seeley) Butterfield, in Sacramento, California. After graduating from Stanford University in 1901 with a degree in library science, she joined her mother in the Arizona Territory.  Nora had remarried W. F. Nichols, who was the Arizona territorial secretary and interim governor when Territorial Governor William Brodie retired from office in 1905. Alice was very fond of W. F. Nichols and referred to him as her dad.

Minnie Belle (Waters) Robb Hesla was born on April 26, 1868, in Rose Hill, Mahaska County, Iowa.  She was the daughter of Evaline (Jarvis) and Samuel Bert “Doc” Waters.

She married James Robb (1861-1888) on September 23, 1886, in Oskaloosa, Manaska County, Iowa. He died shortly after their marriage, leaving her with a young son, Charles Fremont Robb (1888-1972), who later served as Mayor of Prescott, Arizona from 1933 to1937.  On March 5, 1892, she married Olaf Andrew Hesla (1868-1957), an optometrist and jeweler, in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.

Florence May (Wilson) Herndon was born on May 10, 1852, to Charles Francis and Louisa Elizabeth Wilson in Mount Vernon, Missouri. She graduated from Central College in Fayette, Missouri. In Pierce City, Missouri, on December 29, 1875, this "lady of gracious presence and high domestic virtues" was married to John Clark Herndon (1849 -1906), an attorney and partner of J. J. Hawkins and T. J. Norris.

Anna Maria (Bartlett) Mott Henry was born on December 31, 1861, in Christchurch, Hampshire, England.  She was the daughter of Mary Anne (Footner) and Alfred James Bartlett (1845-1886). In 1885, she married Robert Innes Mott, a poet, in Christchurch. They came to California, where he died less than a year after their marriage. On April 3, 1893, she married George Samuel Henry, a builder and contractor in Redlands, San Bernardino County, California.

Esther Lee (Cherry) Henderson was born to Jessie Lee and Norval Cherry on March 16, 1910, in Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. In 1917, her father bought the JDK Ranch and moved the family to Cherry Creek. She started school in the new schoolhouse in Cherry, Arizona. Her family lived in Camp Verde, Bumble Bee, Mayer and Clemenceau during her school years, and she graduated from Clarkdale High School in 1928.