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Louise Marie (Lebsch) Brinkmeyer, daughter of Louis and Margaret Ann (Fugmann) Lebsch, was born May 23, 1906, in Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. The family moved to Prescott early in the 1920s.  Due to rheumatism, her mother became an invalid in 1923.   She met Henry Herman Oscar Brinkmeyer, Jr. while working as a beautician next door to the Brinkmeyer Hotel. “He used to bring me a bowl of soup for lunch just about every day,” said Louise. “You know, I never paid for even one bowl of soup.”

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Ina A. (Muzik) Brinkmeyer was born on Christmas Day 1869 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the daughter of Joseph and Josefa Muzik. She came from Minnesota to Los Angeles, California, in 1890 with girlfriends to work in a boarding house. However, they heard that things were booming in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, so they traveled there to work in a restaurant.

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Emily (Muzik) Brinkmeyer was born in Minnesota on December 21, 1880, the daughter of Joseph and Josepha Muzik. Emily is listed as a student living with her parents on the 1895 state census at Hutchinson, McLeod County, Minnesota.  She married Frank G. Plummer, a Prescott contractor and builder on July 9, 1900, in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory.  According to the Arizona Republican July 13, 1900: “Mr. Plummer has just completed the erection of the residence intended as a gift to his bride, on Marina street, south, next door to the Bones mansion.” The couple had a son, Paul Ashton Plummer, born on July 27, 1902.  Frank died suddenly in November 6, 1904, and was buried in Citizens Cemetery. 

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Cesenea "Cenzie" (Holzschu) Brecht (alternate spelling Cresencia Holzshuh Brecht) was born on November 1, 1856, in Ulm, Germany, and came to New York when she was 10 years old.  She arrived in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, with her sister, Mrs. C. A. Luke, on May 22, 1874.

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Nevada “Vady” California (Martin) Bozarth was born on January 24, 1866, in Illinois, the daughter of Lucretia Lucas and Hiram Martin. According to the Echoes of the Past: Tales of Old Yavapai, Vol. II, her brothers "thought their two-year-old sister should have a name besides 'baby,' which she was called. Being patriotic, they wished to name her for the two richest states in the Union and insisted on the names of Nevada and California, but she was called Nevada or 'Vady'."  

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Nancy Catherine “Cappy” (Hite) Bozarth was born on November 23, 1889, in Octavia, Butler County, Nebraska, the daughter of Marion Francis and Fannie Fern (Fitzsimmons) Hite.  Cappy’s mother Fannie died in April 1897. Cappy and her sister, Virginia, were living with their grandparents John and Nancy Fitzsimmons, in 1900.  Later, Cappy moved to Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, with her uncle, Thomas Fitzsimmons, and attended Prescott public schools. 

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Margaret Barney (Johnston) Born was born December 5, 1876, in Ottawa, Illinois, the daughter of James Bower and Ella (Johnson) Johnston. By 1880, the family had moved to Waterloo, Lyon County, Kansas, where her father was a farmer.

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Bessie Ethel (Hatz) Bork was born June 8, 1879, in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, the daughter of Catherine Shanberger and Daniel Hatz.  Her father was one of the builders of the Governor’s Mansion, which now is a center piece of the Sharlot Hall Museum.  Bessie was a stenographer for Judge J. J. Hawkins for a time. After studying in San Diego, she taught at Ash Fork, Skull Valley and Groom Creek.

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Bertha Josephine “Pete” (Rosenblatt) Scholey Boone was born April 30, 1908, in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. She was the third of six children born to Paul Gerhardt and Dora Cordelia (Leach) Rosenblatt.

Paul, who was hoping for a son after Cordelia or “Delia” presented him with two daughters, named his third child Bertha Josephine in honor of his youngest sister. Soon, however, the namesake baby was nicknamed “Pete,” as was her father. She was “Pete” for the rest of her life.

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Melvina "Millie" or “Nellie” (Norman) Farra/Ferra Boblett was born July 13, 1877, in Rossville, Vermillion County, Illinois, to Jefferson Manley and Martha Ellen (Westfall) Norman. She married Levi Farra on March 12, 1893, in Lawrence County, Tennessee.  Levi and Nellie had three children in the 1890s:  Ollie was born on June 10, 1894; Leslie was born in 1896; and Norman was born March 30, 1899.  Nellie and the children were enumerated on the June 1900 census in Guilford, Tuscola County, Michigan.

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