Margherita “Nonna” (Mariani) Gilardi was born in Bre, Lugano, Switzerland, on July 21, 1885, to Giovanni and Apollonia Mariani. In 1903, Margherita met and married Eliseo Gilardi, who  had returned to his native Switzerland after becoming discouraged as a prospector in the Arizona Territory.  Eliseo returned there in 1905 and went to work at the Senator Mine in Yavapai County, leaving Margherita with a baby daughter. Within a few years, he had saved enough money to pay for the passage of Margherita and two-year-old Leonita, as well as the $200 required by the Immigration Department at Ellis Island.

Cassie Ethel (Walker) George was born at Klondyke, Graham County, Arizona Territory, on January 3, 1910, the daughter of Albert Gallatin and Jessie (Wootan) Walker. Albert was a freighter in the Aravaipa Canyon area.  Jessie died October 14, 1918 from the Spanish flu, one day after giving birth to a baby girl, who lived only a short time.   Albert moved his family to Safford, Graham County, Arizona. His brother, Ira Walker, bought a ranch on the Hassayampa River near Wagoner and urged Albert to join him.

Anna “Duke” (Lewis) Gentry was born January 7, 1887, in Gunnison, Colorado, the daughter of Agnes Ann (Brown) and Dr. Wilbur Wright Lewis. She came to Prescott in 1889 when she was two years old. Duke's family lived with Judge Brooks until their home was built. On September 2, 1903, the Weekly Arizona Journal Miner reported: “Dr. W. W. Lewis left this morning with his daughter, Miss Duke Lewis, for New York, where the latter will remain for a couple of years attending school.”

Emilie Sidney “Sydney” (Tomkinson) Fritsche was born on June 22, 1888, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Joseph and Emilie (Surgison) Tomkinson. She attended school in Philadelphia and graduated from Swarthmore College. She came to the Arizona Territory with her parents in 1908.

On May 30, 1909, she married Harrie (Harry) Walter Fritsche in Phoenix, and they homesteaded at the HW Ranch in Big Chino Valley, Yavapai County, in 1911. She had two daughters: Christine (Mrs. Atkins B.) Hensal (1910), and Barbara B. (1916). A post office for Big Chino was in the ranch house, and Sydney went by buggy to get the mail at Simmons Station in Williamson Valley.

Ora (Townsend) Coleman French was born April 19, 1870, on Ash Creek, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, near Orme Ranch School, the daughter of John B. and Elizabeth (Vickers) Townsend.  Her father, the “Peace Commissioner,” was killed by Apaches at Dripping Springs, east of Mayer, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, when she was three years old.  Her mother then married Merideth Aldridge.

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.