Jessie Ann (Benton) Fremont was born May 31, 1824, in Cherry Grove, Virginia, the daughter of Thomas Hart and Elizabeth (McDowell) Benton. By the time she was five years old, Jessie was living in the nation's capital. She absorbed her early education from her father, a senator from Missouri who was renowned as the Great Expansionist.

Florida “Flora” Appalonia (Gilardi) Fornara was born April 18, 1908, on a cold, snowy day at Maxton, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, near the Senator Mine. Her mother, Margherita (Mariani) Gilardi, stated that snow was coming through the cracks in the cabin, falling on her chest as she was in labor. Flora’s father Eliseo was working at the Senator Mine.

Elvezia (Gilardi) Fornara was the youngest of the three daughters of Eliseo and Margherita (Mariani) Gilardi. She was born on June 8, 1910, in a rooming house on the northwest corner of Granite and Gurley Streets in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. She spent her early years in the Prescott area.

Isabelle (Sageman) Shull Forrest was born on September 19, 1864, in Chatham, England, the daughter of Phillip and Elizabeth Ann (Baker) Sageman (aka Woodman). She came to Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, in 1877 with the Callen Party in a wagon train. She went to the log school on Granite Creek and attended school for two years in California.

Clara (Beauchamp) Ford was born in London, England, on September 6, 1849, the daughter of Anne (Foxe) and Frederick Beauchamp. She lived in Australia where an uncle raised her until she joined her brother, Frederick, in San Francisco, California, in the 1870s.  After his death in July 1877, she answered an advertisement placed by General O. B. Wilcox who was seeking a person to help with his invalid daughter and two sons. Thus, she came with the Wilcox household to Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, in April 1878. 

Mary Elizabeth (Francisco) Averyt Flumerfelt was born in Lyons, New York, on November 22, 1872, the daughter of Adelaide (Penover) and George Francisco.  In 1891, she traveled west with the Bashford family and lived at the home of Levi Bashford on South Mount Vernon Street in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. Today, the Bashford House is located on the grounds of Sharlot Hall Museum.

Margaret “Maggie” Bell (MacKay) Flinn, born on April 27, 1873, near Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada, was the daughter of Zebud and Margaret (Ross) MacKay. She married Dr. John W. Flinn in Wallace on March 14, 1894. She came to Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona Territory, with her husband in 1898, and to Prescott, Yavapai County, in January 1902.

Eva Gordon (McLean) Favour was born December 3, 1883, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of James Grant and Anne McLean. She came to Arizona from Montana in 1919. On June 26, 1919, in Los Angeles, California, she married Alpheus Hoyt Favour, who was an Arizona senator.  She was his second wife and became a stepmother to his three young children.

Mildred “Millie” (Back) Fain was born on September 17, 1879, at Beaver Creek, near Cornville, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, to William and Margie Ann (Dickinson) Back. The oldest of seven children, she grew up on Montezuma Well Ranch and first went to school on Oak Creek. She next attended school at Beaver Creek, walking two-and-a-half miles to get to school.

Johnie Lee (Parson) Fain was born May 15, 1906, the daughter of John Lee and Sarah “Sally” Emily (Morris) Parson on a cotton farm in West Texas. She came to Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona with her family when she was twelve years old. She was a student at St. Joseph's Academy during her first two years of secondary school and then transferred to Prescott High School.