Helen Mary (Wells) Heap was born in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, on October 19, 1871.  Helen was the daughter of Rosalind (Banghart) and Judge Edmund W. Wells of Del Rio Ranch. She attended local schools, Mills College in Oakland, California, and then the Boston Conservatory of Music in Massachusetts.

Dora Virginia (Rosenblatt) Heap, daughter of Dora Cordelia (Leach) and Paul G. Rosenblatt, was born in Prescott on October 16, 1906. She attended Lincoln and Washington Elementary Schools and graduated from Prescott High School in 1924, where she was active in dramatics and in athletics, as captain of the girls’ basketball team. The class prophecy in the 1924 high school yearbook reads, “Dora Rosenblatt has become one of the best revivalists of the time. She has done more, perhaps, than anyone else to abolish dancing, smoking, card playing and cosmetics in Arizona.”

Anna Margaret (Criley) Hazeltine was born November 2, 1870, in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio.  She was the daughter of Martha “Mattie” Jane (Yeaman) and Dr. John Michael Criley, a pioneer physician in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. In 1898, Dr. Criley had an office on Cortez Street in Prescott.

Emma Marie (Stewart) Elliott Hazard was born June 9, 1892, in Paola, Miami County, Kansas, the daughter of Annie Marie (Bradbury) and Ivy Vandervort Stewart. In 1893 her parents brought her to Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory. Emma attended Kyrene and Tempe elementary schools and graduated in 1912 from Tempe Normal School. She often went by her middle name Marie.

Irene (Rogers) Hatch was born on June 13, 1906, in Lehi (now Mesa), Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, the daughter of Myra (Sanders) and Isaac H. Rogers.  She graduated from Mesa Union High School in 1925.

Cora May (Merrell) Hatch was the second child of  Charles William and Mary Francis (Adams) Merrell born in Brigham City, Apache County, Arizona Territory, on February 8, 1881, at two o’clock in the morning.  Brigham City was a settlement of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) or Mormons.

Norah (Clough) Hartzell was born April 1, 1878, at Point of Rocks in the Granite Dells area located just outside of Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, on land known as the Bianconi Ranch. She was the daughter of Mary (Alexander) and Alfred Clough. Norah had a brother, Frank, who died December 20. 1892, one week short of his eighteenth birthday. The Weekly Arizona Journal Miner, dated September 21, 1904, carried an item reporting, “Miss Nora Clough, daughter of A. S. Clough, of Point of Rocks returned last Friday from a three months’ trip in the east…traveling during her absence a distance of 6,000 miles.”  She attended the School of Home Economics in Boston, where she was enumerated in the 1910 federal census.

Angela (Hutchinson) Hammer, daughter of Sarah Agatha (O'Higgins) and William Tallentyre Hutchinson, was born November 30, 1870, in Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada. She and her parents came to Picket Post, Pinal County, Arizona Territory, in 1883.

Sharlot Mabridth Hall was born on October 27, 1870, in Lincoln County, Kansas to James Knox Polk and Adeline Susannah (Boblett) Hall. She traveled to Arizona with her family in a wagon train in 1882. Sharlot rode her pony all of the way from Kansas, helping to herd horses which her father sold once they reached Arizona Territory.

Adeline Susannah (Boblett) Hall was born on September 23, 1844, in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of John and Susannah (Black) Boblett.  When the 1850 census was taken, they were living in Wabash County, Indiana, where her mother died in August1850.  The family moved to Guthrie County, Iowa before 1860, and her father remarried.