Edna Grace (Ritter) Lange was born into a pioneer Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, ranching family on October 8, 1908. Her grandfather ran cattle on the open range all the way from Prescott to Congress Junction.

Edna grew up on the Ritter Ts Ranch between the towns of Kirkland and Hillside. She attended school at Thompson Valley and Kirkland. In the wintertime, she dressed for school behind the kitchen range, putting on long underwear, a pantywaist, heavy black stockings, a wool jersey petticoat, and a wool dress.

Frances “Fannie” (Markbreit) Kautz was born on June 24, 1848, in Baden, Baden, Germany, the daughter of Johanna (Abele) and Leopold Markbreit. When the family immigrated to the United States is unknown. On November 27, 1872, she married Brigadier General August Valentin Kautz (1828-1895), who was a Civil War hero, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. She was his third wife. From 1874 until 1878, he was the Colonel of the 8th U. S. Infantry stationed at Fort Whipple, Arizona Territory. Fannie and their young son, Austin (1873-1927), moved to Prescott with August in 1874.

Fern (Foltz) Johnson, daughter of Martha (Pore) and Henry H. Foltz, was born on August 14, 1908, in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, at her parents' small farm, located at what today is the area of Camelback Road and 20th Street.

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.