When Adelia Catherine Rebehn was born on 11 February 1892, in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States, her father, Joachim Joseph Rebehn, was 39 and her mother, Anna Rebecka Magdalena Wohlers, was 32. She married Bryant William Graves on 27 December 1911, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. She lived in Boomer Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Columbia, Brown, South Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 26 October 1969, in Ellendale, Dickey, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 77.