Margaret “Maggie” (Wickson) Bigelow was born on September 15, 1880, in Higgins, Texas to Robert W. and Sarah E. (Porter) Wickson. At the age of sixteen, Maggie married William Rufus Bigelow on August 29, 1897, in Grand, Day County, Oklahoma Territory. After the wedding, the couple lived in Oklahoma for a few years, where they had their first three children, Louise, Ernestine and Edna.  The family had moved to Lipscomb County, Texas when the census was taken June 1900.

Carrie M. (Welch) Bianconi was born in Mobile, Alabama, on September 16, 1900. Her parents, John O. and Mary E. Welch, came to Gilbert, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, in 1907. They had four children: Carrie, Bert, Myrtle and Owen. 

Catherine “Kate“ Cecilia (Healy) Bennett, the daughter of Annie Simon and Barney Philip Healy, was born September 5, 1891, in Olmitz, Kansas. She came with her family to Goodwin, Arizona, in 1895 from New Mexico. The second child in the family, Kate, was given many chores to do around the house such as getting in the wood and packing water into the house. 

Alvina Maria (Rodriquez) Bennett, daughter of Andrea de Albelino y Josefa Vasquez and Apolonio Rodriquez, was born on February 3, 1853, at Half Moon Bay, California. 

Alvina was a great-great-granddaughter of Juan Antanasio Vasquez and Maria Gertrudes Castilo de Vasquez, who had come to Alta California with the De Anza expedition from Villa de Sinoloa, Mexico, in 1769.

Carolyn Root (Day) Beach was born on McCormick Street in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, on December 18, 1902, the youngest daughter of Warren and Bridget L. (Gordon) Day.  Her father was a physician who came to Arizona in 1873 at the request of General George Crook and served as post surgeon at Ft. Verde until 1876.

Mary Louise (Evans) Bashford was born February 16, 1850 in Ohio and came to the Arizona Territory from Fayette County, Pennsylvania.  She joined her sisters, who had already established themselves as society leaders in Prescott, Yavapai County.

Henrietta “Etta” Francis (Parker) Bashford was born on August 30, 1858, in Minnesota, the daughter of George Riley and Emily Parker. The Parkers came to the Arizona Territory in the late 1860s with their three youngest children, leaving behind two married daughters in Minnesota. The family settled in Peeples Valley where they owned a ranch.

Elizabeth Anne (Shanberger) Barrington, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Heckert) Shanberger, was born on February 9, 1849, in Maumelle, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Prior to the Civil War, her parents owned a prosperous plantation in Maumelle. During the War, the family fled to Texas, and then returned to Arkansas after the hostilities had ceased.

Marie Flavee (Warlop) Leffingwell Baron, daughter of Joseph and Leona Warlop, was born in Wervik, West Flanders, Belgium, on May 8, 1879. She was a twin and the youngest of sixteen children.

Mary Ann Monica (Peck) Banghart was born in Vaughan Township in Upper Canada on May 22, 1833, to Washington and Mercy Mary (Wilcox) Peck. On March 26, 1850, she married George W. Banghart in Westminster Township of Middlesex County in Canada West.