Arizona republican., 1915-04-18
Official Organ of State Federation of Clubs

Nhapter, Daughters Of the American Revolution, Mrs Henry David Evans one of its most active members read paper of more than ordinary in terest on some Pioneer Women of America. The article was replete with clever personalities such as only student of Colonial Days would be familiar. Mrs. Evans is at present greatly interested in the work that the Colonial Danes of Arizona have undertaken. It is the object of the members to permanently place his toric relics that old Indian and pre- historic curios may be safely stored and placed on exhibition. She is not confining her efforts to any single interest and is advocating the cause of the Daughters of the American Revolution in getting historic mark CTS placed in Arizona.
 Mrs. Evans belongs to the Woman's club of Phoenix and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation So ciety. which is Incorporated in New York but which covers tie entire United States in its scope of work.
 In the introduction of her paper on Pioneer women. Mrs. Evans says:
 We often think of all Colonial wo- men as being pioneers. but that is not SD, because before they had been in this country fifty years there were as many luNries among the wealthy here as in the Mother countries, away from the largest cities. They brought their furniture. their clothes. the lum- her for their houses, their servants, their food. Tn fact everything they needed or desired for theIr comfort or convenience. from the other side: so that the real pioneers were just those who paved the way for the well do and the governing classes. Their daughters in turn. moved west ward and the hall has kept on roll ing until. within the last 25 years. the United States has reached the point where we can have no more. without going outside our boundaries.
 Previous to tte year 1905, there were but few European women on this continent for the Spaniards who settled St. Augustine and Santa Fe brought very few if any women with them. In 1865 the French settled Port Royal and three years later quebec Their women were wonder ful. in more spectacular manner than the Anglo SaNons. just as their history has more of tragic romance
 
 the English settled Jamestown ana Plymouth and the Dutch, New Am sterdam. The French claimed every thing south of the St. Lawrence. thc English from the Atlantic coast west ward" and the Spanish everything north of the gulf. While at first the settlements were so few and far be- tween it was perfectly satisfactory, in time they began to overlap with each other and New Netherland, and produced endless confusion Ii ended with the English having control of all the Colonies between Florida and Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast"
 In the more primitive days, while the colonists were practically home less. they had learned many lessons from the Aborigine particularly as the home government frowned upon our shipping industries and dld her hest to kill international commerce especially with the colonies. Clothing, bedding, shoes, harness. household furniture, and agricultural In.pIe ments had to he made at home. Of course the privileged few were exempt from this tyranny but the average settler suffered. From the Indians they learned To tan and dress the skin of animals for clothes and robes and rugs and leather They learned to mako splints from the black ash. su that in the iong winter evenings they could make chair bottoms, bas- kets. winnowinE pans. Al first in nearly all the settlements they had trouble providing shelters for the ia miles and many lived in wigwams and brushwood tents.
 Mrs. Evans in speaking of conditions of that time declares that it was upon the women the ma1eshifts fell. She graphically describes the dangers that the women faced and the many try ing hardships.
 Pocahontas was tho first Indian of note to marry a white man. according to any definate record preserved. She married John RoIfe- and was much feted in England and well thought of here. Our Virginia history would have been very different if it hadn't been for her as she not .cnb saved inc life If Captain John Smth but of many others. Alter recording the first mar riage of an English girl. Anne Bur roughs to John I,aydon, Mrs. Evans tells of tho bride emigration of 162e and incidents in connection with the coming of the Mayflower.
 of those who were on the ship little Priscilla Alden is the hest known. She was sixteen and came with her father, mother, brother and q working man. All died the first year leaving her alone in the new colony. She was married in 1G22 and in 1s50 they had eleven children all living. and her oldest daughter was the mother of five. One writer says To-day the descendants of John and Priscilla are like the stars iI the heavens in their multitude" one thing of interest is. that Miles Standish whose wife was among the first to die in the colony. and who lost in his courtship of Priscilla. mar Tied his wife's sister and their oldest son married the second daughter of