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Mrs. Luxmoore, Sharlot M. Hall and Kate Cory in stands at Frontier Days event

SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL (b. October 27, 1870, d. April 9, 1943) moved from Lincoln County, Kansas to Arizona in 1882. She moved twelve miles southeast of Prescott, Arizona at Lynx Creek, with her father, James Knox Hall, her mother, Adeline Susannah Hall, and her brother, Edward "Ted" V. Hall.

Sharlot became a poet, a writer, a journalist, an associate editor of "Out West" magazine, and served as Arizona's Territorial Historian from 1909-1912. In addition, she became the first steward and curator of the Arizona Governor's Mansion in Prescott, which she eventually turned into a Museum beginning in 1928. Today, she is the namesake of the Sharlot Hall Museum.

LTC CHARLES de JONCOURT LUXMOORE (b. 1873 - d. October 25, 1941) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army, and served for 26 years in the 33rd Deccan Infantry, stationed in British-occupied India.  In 1924, he and his wife made a year-long tour of the United States, including a stop in Prescott to attend the Rodeo during Frontier Days.  His wife, MARY ETHEL LUXMOORE, was a British member of the World Council of Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), and was General Secretary of the YWCA in India.  She died September 2, 1969 at the age of 91.