Cary (Burch) Fain was born June 22, 1845, in Missouri. It was reported in the Pioneer Stories of Arizona’s Verde Valley that Cary twice answered the call to the West. The first trip, at the age of fifteen, was made by boat around the horn of South America through the Straits of Magellan.

Amy Jean (Nelson) Fagerberg was born on April 25, 1879, in Ontario, Canada, the daughter of William and Eliza (Spinks) Nelson. She came to the Arizona Territory in fall 1896 with her mother and father.

She married Oscar “Dixon” Fagerberg on December 20, 1905, in Prescott, Yavapai County, at her parents’ home. They honeymooned in San Francisco before returning to Prescott. Amy had three children: Dixon Jr., born March 20, 1909; Louise Nelson, born January 30, 1913; and Jean, born August 21, 1915.  Her son Dixon wrote Meeting the Four o’clock Train, a book of Prescott memories.

Sophia Annie (Gibson) Evans was born on February 14, 1875 in Llano County, Texas, the daughter of William Washington and Sarah Ann (Haynes) Gibson. She often went by her middle name, Annie.  While she was young, Annie’s family left Texas for the Arizona Territory in a covered wagon. They spent two years in New Mexico and survived several Indian raids before arriving in Globe, Pinal County, in 1880.  Later they moved to Palomas, Yuma County, on the Gila River and finally settled at the mining town of Congress in Yavapai County.

Mildred Ethel (Hayden) Evans, daughter of Wilford and Jemima “Mittie” Ann (Ware) Hayden, was born July 7, 1895, at her parents' farm in the small settlement of Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory.

Annie “Mettie” (Simmons) Evans was born in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, May 28, 1879, the daughter of John Franklin and Sarah (Akard) Simmons, who came from two colorful pioneer families. Her father, John Franklin Simmons, was the son of John Wilson Simmons, who served in the third and fourth Arizona Territorial Legislatures. The Simmons family came to Arizona Territory in 1864 from Kansas and settled along Willow Creek in Williamson Valley.

Pearl Viola (Satathite) Ethridge, daughter of William Jackson and Lillian Belle Satathite, was born in Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, on February 8, 1912. Her parents, both Texas natives, had moved to Glendale from Socorro County, New Mexico.  After Pearl’s birth, the family moved to Thompson Valley, which is in Yava, Yavapai County.  They stayed there until William bought a place approximately two miles south of Kirkland.

Margaret (Williams) Ehle was born on October 14, 1817, in Ohio, the daughter of Henry and Amy (Beale) Williams. Margaret married William Joseph Ehle in Washington County, Iowa, on December 9, 1841. By 1860 the family had moved to Colorado.  They accompanied the first U. S. troops to be stationed at Fort Whipple and arrived in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, on July 28, 1864. In 1865, they established the first government road station at Skull Valley.

Sarah Agnes (Lange) Eckert was born March 25, 1890, in a tent home at Globe, Pinal County, Arizona Territory, the daughter of Mary Elizabeth (Larremore) and Otto Augustus Lange. She was the eldest of the Lange children and helped her mother raise her nine brothers and sisters.

Ida Anna (Smith) Dutcher was born on September 27, 1855, in Allegany, New York, the daughter of Allison “Orlando” and Julia (Knox) Smith. She married Dr. Egbert William Dutcher on September 29, 1873.

The family was living in Colesville, Broome County, New York, when the census was taken in 1880. Ida and Egbert had two children:  Emma, born May 25, 1879, and Egbert K., born March 3, 1885.  They came to Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, by way of California in July 1892.

Emma Ida Dutcher, daughter of Doctor Egbert and Ida (Smith) Dutcher, was born in Nineveh, Broome County, New York, on May 25, 1879. She came to Prescott, Arizona Territory, with her parents, who decided to move west because her mother was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Emma attended Prescott High School and then Mills College in Oakland, Alameda County, California, where she studied literary courses and graduated in 1902.