When Ida Jane McNew was born on 16 February 1878, in Goldendale, Klickitat, Washington, United States, her father, John Biser McNew, was 31 and her mother, Edwin Ann Lusby, was 28. She married Henry Lawrence Burchell in 1895, in Lexington, Morrow, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Goldendale, Klickitat, Washington Territory, United States in 1880 and Lexington, Morrow, Oregon, United States in 1900. She died on 3 August 1908, in Beaverton, Washington, Oregon, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Cooper Mountain Cemetery, Washington, Oregon, United States.