Source: Ancestry.com—Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1962.
Her parents were born in Germany. However the 1880 census reported that her father was born in Prussia and her mother was born in Ohio.
She had six children of whom five were living in 1910. In 1920 she lived with her son John P. and his family in North Ridgeville, Lorain County, Ohio.

In 1870 he and his wife lived in North Ridgeville, Lorain County, Ohio with their daughter Mary. In 1880 he and his wife lived in North Ridgeville with their four children. In 1910 he and his wife lived in North Ridgeville with their son John P., his wife and their two daughters.