Mary Oldfield, daughter of George Oldfield and Temperance Shepherd, was born in 1791 in Minisink, New York. She married Eli Kelsey (1785-1836) in 1805 in Onatar

Jane Caldwell, daughter of Joseph Caldwell and Mary Bennett, was born in 1808 or 1809 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania or Steubenville, Ohio. She married John Wai

When she began writing, Mary Haskin Parker Richards was twenty-two, a Mormon convert who had traveled from England to the American frontier separately from her